Common Name

High Sida, Hairy Sida, Narrow-leaved Sida

Family

Malvaceae

Notes

Perennial forb to 50cm tall or sprawling. Leaves alternating up the stems, 0.5-3cm long, 1-15mm wide, flat, hairless to sparsely hairy, margins toothed to entire. Flowers with 5 yellow petals, solitary on stalks arising from the bases of the leaves or apparently in leafy racemes arising from the bases of the leaves or at the tops of the stems.

Description in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales page 489

PlantNET description with line drawings: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Sida~trichopoda