Sida elliottii var. elliottii
Synonyms: Sida inflexa Fernald S. leptophylla Small
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 6. Treatment on page 314.
Herbs or subshrubs, 0.5–1 m. Leaf-blades 3–8 cm, with or without purplish margins. Pedicels 0.5–2.5 cm. Flowers: calyx 6–10 mm, minutely stellate-hairy and hirsute at base and along ribs. Mericarps blunt to spinose apically, spines to 1 mm.
Phenology: Flowering spring–fall.
Habitat: Disturbed sites, stream banks, grasslands, open, shrubby areas, preferring sandy soil
Elevation: 0–300 m
Distribution
Ala., Ark., Fla., Ga., La., Miss., Mo., N.C., S.C., Tenn., Va.
Discussion
Variety elliottii occurs generally north of 29°N latitude.
Selected References
None.
Lower Taxa
None.
... more about "Sida elliottii var. elliottii"
monadelphous +
absent +
blunt;spinose +
clawlike +
truncate +
veined +
narrowly linear;narrowly elliptic +
4-20 +
unlobed +
absent +
ribbed +
2;3;5 +
dark-red +
well-differentiated +
sparse;copious +
connate +
reticulate +
developed +
muticous +
syncarpous +
Present +
10-ribbed +
scattered +
axillary +
divided +
tough-fibrous +
deciduous +
absent +
persistent +
arranged +
spiral +
cauline +
ovate +
dentate +
purplish +
crenate +
5;many +
3-40-carpellate +
superior +
(1-)2-many +
longer +
slender +
yellow-orange +
much shorter +
palmate +
Fl. N. Amer. +
1838 +
oblate +
glabrous +
reniform +
folliclelike +
persistent +
connate +
Illustrated +
5;many +
connate +
falling +
included +
toothed +
absent +
viscid +
procumbent +
erect +
capitate +
1-2 times number of carpels +
1-veined +
persistent +
free +
subulate +
subequal +
8-11-branched +
Sida elliottii var. elliottii +
Sida elliottii +
variety +
little-branched +
mucilaginous +
perennial +
stellate-hairy +