English: Spurred anoda; Crested anoda; Violettas
Synonym: Sida cristata.
Region: Mexico, Central America; introduced to the Americas, Australia.
Ecology: agricultural weed, especially of soybeans.
Use: medicinal; leaves as spinach–like cooked green.
BotanyHerb; annual; 50 to 100 cm tall; variable in morphology; fresh character.
Stem: ridged; branching.
Leaves: variable shape; somewhat triangular; hairy.
flowers: solitary; in axils; 2 to 3 centimeters wide; sepals pointed green to reddish; petals lavender.
Fruit: bristly, disc-shaped capsule; 9 to 20 segments, each with 1 seed.
LiteratureRendon, Beatriz Rendon; Ethnobotany of
Anoda cristata (L.) Schl. (Malvaceae) in central Mexico: Uses, management and population differentiation in the community of Santiago Mamalhuazuca, Ozumba, State of Mexico; Economic
Botany, October 2001; https://www.researchgate.net/publication/226674759.