Anoda cristata (L.) Schltdl.
Description
Suberect to sprawling perennial herbs, the stems usually hispid, the hairs patent or retrorse. Leaf blades mostly 3-9 cm long, variable (ovate, triangular, hastate, or rarely palmately lobed), crenate to subentire, acute, sparsely pubescent above and beneath, the hairs mostly simple and appressed, often with a purple blotch along midvein, occasionally also on margin; petioles 1/2-1 times as long as the blades, hispid. Flowers solitary in the leaf axils, long-pedunculate; calyx 5-10 mm long in flower, accrescent to 12-20 mm long in fruit, hispid; corolla without a dark center, the petals 8-26 mm long, purplish or violet (rarely white); androecium shorter than the petals, pubescent; styles 10-19. Fruits 8-11 mm in diameter (excluding spines), a flattened disk, densely hispid; mericarps 10-19, indehiscent, with spine 1.5-4 mm long on dorsal angle, the lateral walls evanescent; seeds 3 mm long, with or without an enclosing endocarp, glabrous. Chromosome numbers: 2n = 30, 60, 90.
Habitat & Ecology
A common and widespread species, occurring throughout Mexico and flowering essentially throughout the year. It is highly variable and often occurs as a weed in disturbed areas. It is usually lavender-flowered but white-flowered variants sometimes occur. B
Categoría IUCN
No incluidaC
Categoría NOM-059-SEMARNAT-2010
No incluidaD