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Parietaria cretica

Parietaria cretica
Photo: Eleftherios Katsillis, CC BY 4.0

Parietaria cretica is a small annual or short-lived perennial herb in the nettle family, native to the eastern Mediterranean and North Africa. It is a wild, weedy plant of walls, rocks and shaded disturbed ground rather than a garden ornamental, so it is rarely grown on purpose.

Family
Urticaceae (Nettle family)
Grows as
Annual
Light
Part shade, Shade
Water
Tolerates ordinary moisture in the wild; keep soil lightly moist without waterlogging.
Soil
Well-drained, moderately fertile or rocky soil, often in wall crevices.
Temperature
Subtropical to mild Mediterranean climate; protect from hard frost.
How easy
Easy
Native range
Sicilia, Greece to SW. Türkiye, Cyprus, W. Syria, NE. Tunisia to Libya
Climate
subtropical

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Parietaria cretica is a species of plant in the family Urticaceae.

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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Parietaria cretica by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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