DW.jpg) Flowers and leaves. Photo: Don Wood, Carnarvon Station Bush Heritage Reserve, via Augathella, Qld |
DW.jpg) Plant. Photo: Don Wood, Carnarvon Station Bush Heritage Reserve, via Augathella, Qld |
DW.jpg) Plant. Photo: Don Wood, Carnarvon Station Bush Heritage Reserve, via Augathella, Qld |
 Flower and leaf. Photo: P Acevado, Smithsonian Institution, Department of Botany, plant from Virgin Islands, West Indies |
 Watercolour. Smithsonian Institution, Department of Botany, painted by Agustin Stahl |
Common Name
Spiked Malvastrum, Malvastrum
Family
Malvaceae
Notes
Introduced annual or perennial forb, sometimes woody at the base, to 60cm tall. Leaves alternating up the stems, 1-7cm long, 5-35mm wide, hairy, rather rough, with toothed edges. Flowers yellow to orange, with 5 petals, in dense spikes at the tops of the stems. Spikes almost globular at first, elongating up to 7cm long.
Description and photo in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales pages 482-483. Treated as a native plant in this book.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Malvastrum~americanum