USDA
Code:
ANCR2
Legal
Status:
Colorado
List B Noxious Weed
Family:
Malvacaea (Mallow)
Lifecycle:
Annual
Growth
form: Forb
Flower:
Solitary, light blue to lavender
Seeds/Fruit:
Capsule contains 10 to 20 segments each with a brown or
black kidney shaped seed.
Leaves:
Alternate, triangular to arrow shaped.
Coarsely toothed with three distinct lobes.
Stems:
Erect, reaching 3 ½
feet in height and branch at the base.
Roots:
Taproot.
Seedling:
One
round and one heart-shaped cotyledon with hairs along the
margins of the leaves.
SIMILAR
SPECIES:
Natives:
Prickly Sida and Velvetleaf
IMPACTS
Agricultural:
Invades
soybean and cornfields reducing quantity and quality.
HABITAT
AND DISTRIBUTION
General
requirements: Found
in ditches, crops, waste areas, along roadsides, and in
gardens.
Distribution:
Distribution has spread from
Iowa
to
Arizona
.
Historical:
Native
of the Southwest.
CONTROL
REFERENCES
Whitson,
T.D.(ed.), L.C. Burrill, S.A. Dewey, D.W. Cudney, B.E.
Nelson, R.D. Lee, R. Parker.
5th Edition 1999. Weeds
of the West.
Western Society of Weed Science, in cooperation with
the Western United States Land Grant Universities
Cooperative Extension Services,
Newark
CA
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