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Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Rosales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Laportea aestuans   FAMILY Urticaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Laportea aestuans   FAMILY Urticaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America

Laportea aestuans

 

COMMON NAME:
West Indian Wood-nettle


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image of Laportea aestuans, West Indian Wood-nettle

Keith Bradley    kab_l_aestuans_78651

September    Miami-Dade County    FL

Plants with stipitate-glandular trichomes as well as stinging trichomes, per Weakley's Flora (2015).


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image of Laportea aestuans, West Indian Wood-nettle

Keith Bradley    kab_l_aestuans_78660

September    Miami-Dade County    FL

Staminate & pistillate flwrs in same panicle, or proximal panicles staminate, per Flora of North America.

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Laportea aestuans   FAMILY Urticaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Laportea aestuans   FAMILY Urticaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Laportea aestuans

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

3982

Forb
Annual
Monoecious

Habitat: Waste ground and agricultural areas (e.g. tree farms), per Weakley's Flora

Non-native

Waif(s)

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IS THE PLANT "ARMED"?
Stinging trichomes present

LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate
Margins regularly serrate or dentate

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Greenish?
4-5 sepals in staminate flowers, 2-4 in pistillate flowers
Petals absent
4-5 stamens in staminate flowers
Unisexual

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Achene

 

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