Viscid Mallow

Description

Plants 0.5-1.5 m. Stems often malodorous, sometimes also with simple hairs 2 mm. Leaf blades 4-8 cm (often smaller), apex acute to acuminate. Inflorescences usually leafy panicles. Pedicels slender. Flowers: calyx 4-5 mm, viscid; corolla usually 6+ mm, petals 4-5 mm. Schizocarps 5-6 mm diam.; mericarps muticous. Seeds 2 mm. 2n = 28.Flowering year-round. Shrublands, thickets, disturbed vegetation, pastures, roadsides; 0-500 m; Tex.; e Mexico; West Indies; Central America; South America (Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela).Bastardia viscosa is known only from the lower Rio Grande valley.