Arrowleaf Sida

(Sida rhombifolia)

Characteristics

Seedling	Leaves	Flowers	Fruit

Growing habit: Erect, much-branched annual herb

Root anatomy: Fibrous roots from slender, branching long taproot

Leaf anatomy: Alternate, wide, simple, rhombic, widest at or slightly above middle, margins serrate only on half to ¾ of blade

Reproduction: Solitary in leaf axils, pale yellow, 5-petalled 

^{References: Weeds of the South by Charles T. Bryson and Michael S. DeFelice}