NameThatPlant.net: Melochia villosa

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Malvids: Malvales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Melochia villosa FAMILY Malvaceae Go to FSUS key

Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Melochia spicata FAMILY Sterculiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America

Melochia villosa

SYNONYMOUS WITH The genera of Sterculiaceae in the Southeastern US (Brizicky, 1966)

Melochia villosa

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Riedlea hirsuta

COMMON NAME:
Bretonica Peluda

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image of Melochia villosa, Bretonica Peluda

Keith Bradley kab_melochia_spicata_4629

October Lee County FL

Wild Turkey Strand Preserve

Leaves densely pubescent, ovate-oblong. Flwrs bell-shaped in upper leaf axils, per Everglades Wildflowers (Hammer, 2002, 2015).

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Melochia villosa FAMILY Malvaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Melochia spicata FAMILY Sterculiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Melochia villosa

SYNONYMOUS WITH The genera of Sterculiaceae in the Southeastern US (Brizicky, 1966)
Melochia villosa

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Riedlea hirsuta

4018

Subshrub; Forb
Annual/Perennial

Habitat: calcareous pine flatwoods, disturbed areas, per Weakley's Flora

Non-native: tropical America, the original distribution uncertain

Waif(s)

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LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate
Leaves have short petioles.

FLOWER:
Winter/Spring/Summer/Fall
Pink, purplish, or violet
Radially symmetrical
5-lobed campanulate corolla
5 stamens
Superior ovary

Inflorescences spikelike

FRUIT:
Winter/Spring/Summer/Fall
Brown
Capsule

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