Plants densely velvety appressed-tomentose. Leaf blades suborbiculate, length mostly less than 2 times width, apex rounded to broadly acute. Pedicels, at least some, recurved in fruit.

Phenology: Flowering May–Nov.
Habitat: Floodplains, old pastures, loamy soils, roadsides.
Elevation: 50–600 m.

Distribution

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Ariz., Ark., Ill., Ind., Kans., La., Mo., N.Mex., N.C., Okla., S.C., Tex., Mexico (Coahuila, Nuevo León, Tamaulipas).

Discussion

Variety lindheimerianus is somewhat weedy and is adventive to central North Carolina, where it has persisted at the same site for over 50 years; it presumably is introduced also in South Carolina.

Selected References

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Lower Taxa

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