Spurred Anoda

Spurred Anoda

Anoda cristata (L.) Schlecht.

Malvaceae (Mallow Family)

▲ seedlings

▲ ▼ young plants

▲ small mature plant with flower

▲ flower and young fruit

▲ ▼ fruit structures

Spurred Anoda: (not in Weeds of the Great Plains; not in Weeds of the Northeast)

• Bushy, branched weed growing to about 3-4’ tall and wide, common in southern U.S. (and southern MO) row crops
• Has rough-hairy leaves and stems; leaves are triangular to 3-lobed with smaller teeth/lobes around the margin
• Leaf may have purplish mark near base of blade where it joins the petiole
• Flowers are lavender, about 0.5-1" diameter in axils of leaves
• Fruit is a circular, segmented, flattened fruit, somewhat similar to velvetleaf, but more flattened

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