Clearweed,
Order: Posales
Family: Urticaceae
Genus: Pilea
Species: P, pumila
Characteristics
-10-70cm tall
leaves and stem are translucent and bright green (yellow in autumn)
flowers are small, yellowish green
looks like stinging nettle, but there are no hairs
-Leaves - opposite, simple, wrinkly with depressed veins, ovate, serated
Adaptations
Lives in moist rich soils, sometimes grown as understory for deer. able to grow in sunny and shaded locations.
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