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  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Roses, Elms, Figs, and Allies
  6. Nettles and Allies
  7. Clearweeds

genus

Clearweeds

Pilea

Traits
Includes
5 native 4 introduced 2 present
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Children 24 of 37

  • Artillery Plant native
  • Canada Clearweed native
  • Aluminium Plant introduced
  • Chinese Money Plant introduced
  • Creeping Charlie present
  • Three-vein Clearweed present
  • Pilea aquarum present
  • Pilea peploides native
  • Springs Clearweed native
  • Pilea serpyllacea
  • West Indian Clearweed
  • Pilea mollis
  • Cliffside Clearweed
  • Caribbean Creeping Jenny
  • Pilea elliptica
  • Pilea pubescens
  • Friendship Plant
  • Verdolaguilla
  • Clearweed
  • Caribbean Clearweed native
  • Margarett's Clearweed
  • Virdrillo
  • Pilea glaucophylla
  • Artillery Plant

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Key traits

Layer
Herbaceous plants
Plant type
Annual Perennial Wildflower

From USDA PLANTS.

Top native clearweeds All

Native to the US, ranked by caterpillars, then bees and other hosts, food, flowers and shelter.

  • Artillery Plant Pilea microphylla caterpillars 4
  • Canada Clearweed Pilea pumila caterpillars 3 food 1 flowers 2
  • Springs Clearweed Pilea fontana caterpillars 3
  • Caribbean Clearweed Pilea herniarioides caterpillars 1
  • Pilea peploides

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