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Old 07-10-2007, 05:35 PM posted to austin.gardening
Stewart Robert Hinsley Stewart Robert Hinsley is offline
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Default Mystery scrub/plant 4.

In message om,
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Another please pretty please?
Thank you,
Anita
1.
http://s87.photobucket.com/albums/k1...iew&current=my
steryplant2a.jpg


That might be a mallow of some description, but I can't see enough
detail to be sure one way or the other.

The calyces appear to be valvate in aestivation, and persistent in
fruit, with the fruit being a schizocarp, and the foliage alternate with
the leaves palmately veined. That matches a mallow.

Unlobed leaves, and leaves with rounded (as opposed to cordate) bases
are relatively rare among mallows, but they do exist. I'm not familiar
enough with the American species to make an identification, but the
plant doesn't look incompatible with an identification as Sida spinosa.

http://www.illinoiswildflowers.info/...ickly_sida.htm
http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?...ID=sisp_1h.jpg

2.
http://s87.photobucket.com/albums/k1...iew&current=my
steryplant2b.jpg

That's a different plant.
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Stewart Robert Hinsley
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