| Family | Scientific Name | Common Name | Habitat | Distribution | Image |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Urticaceae | Parietaria floridana | Florida Pellitory | Coastal shores, sometimes weedy in calcareous situations or around greenhouses. | Delaware south to Florida and west to Texas, on the outer Coastal Plain; Bahamas; Mexico, Central America, and South America. Reported for c. Kentucky (Adanick & Medley 2020). | ![]() (c) Bradley, Keith |
| Urticaceae | Parietaria judaica | Pellitory-of-the-wall | Disturbed urban areas. | Native of Europe. Reports of P. officinalis in our area are based on P. judaica. Reported for Beaufort County, South Carolina (Bradley et al. [in prep.]). | ![]() (c) Frade, Duarte - CC-BY |
| Urticaceae | Parietaria pensylvanica | Pennsylvania Pellitory, Rock Pellitory | In circumneutral soils, such as in thin soils at the bases of calcareous or subcalcareous cliffs or on calcareous shale barrens, rich floodplain soils. | Maine west to British Columbia, south to e. North Carolina, w. North Carolina, South Carolina (Gaddy 2014), Alabama, Panhandle Florida, Texas, Nevada, and Mexico (many states). | ![]() (c) Gwaltney, John |
| Urticaceae | Parietaria praetermissa | Coastal Pellitory | Shell middens, coastal hammocks. | E. North Carolina south to s. Florida and west to w. Louisiana. | ![]() (c) Davis, Scott Allen - CC-BY |



