Malvaceae
Prickly fanpetals
Sida spinosa
- Family
- Malvaceae
- Genus
- Sida
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Common names
By language (8)
- Arabic
- ملوخية ابليس
- Chinese
- 刺金午時花, 刺黃花棯, 刺黄花棯, 刺黄花稔
- Czech
- Vlákeň ostnitá
- English
- Prickly fanpetals, False mallow, Indian mallow, Prickly mallow, Prickly sida, Spiny sida, Teaweed, Thistle mallow
- Finnish
- Otasiida
- Korean
- 공단풀
- Swedish
- Taggmalva
- Welsh
- Hocysen bigog
Synonyms
- Malachodendron corchoroides (Forssk.) J.F.Gmel.
- Malva spinosa (L.) E.H.L.Krause
- Malvinda alnifolia Medik.
- Malvinda spinosa (L.) Medik.
- Malvinda spinosa (L.) Moench
- Sida angustifolia Lam.
- Sida angustifolia var. major C.Presl
- Sida betonicifolia Pav. ex Hemsl.
- Sida bicolor Cav.
- Sida bicuspidata J.F.Gmel.
- Sida boriara Wall.
- Sida carpinifolia f. balbisiana (DC.) Millsp.
- Sida emarginata Willd.
- Sida glandulosa Roxb. ex Wight & Arn.
- Sida heterocarpa Engelm.
- Sida milleri DC.
- Sida minor Macfad.
- Sida pimpinellifolia Mill.
- Sida scabra Thonn.
- Sida spinosa f. albiflora Magrath
- Sida spinosa var. angustifolia Griseb.
- Sida spinosa var. kazmii Abedin
- Sida spinosa var. spinosa
- Sida subdistans A.St.-Hil. & Naudin
- Sida tenuicaulis Hook.f.
- Sida truncata L'Hér.
- Stewartia corchoroides Forssk.
Characteristics
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb, Subshrub
- Lifespan
- Annual, Perennial
- In the US and Canada
- Canada: introduced, Hawaii: introduced, Lower 48 states: native, Pacific Basin: introduced, Puerto Rico: native, U.S. Virgin Islands: native
Photos
Photo: Dick Culbert from Gibsons, B.C., Canada, CC BY 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Marco Schmidt [1], CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons Photo: Rodney Cole, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Pl@ntNet via GBIF 
Photo: Alex Popovkin, Bahia, Brazil, CC BY 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons Photo: Rodney Cole, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Pl@ntNet via GBIF 
Photo: Alex Popovkin, Bahia, Brazil, CC BY 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons Photo: debdebblack, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Pl@ntNet via GBIF Photo: creepingivy, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Pl@ntNet via GBIF 
Photo: Dinesh Valke from Thane, India, CC BY-SA 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons Photo: Faro Zamorano, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Pl@ntNet via GBIF 
Photo: Macleay Grass Man, CC BY 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons Photo: Gina Bollati, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Pl@ntNet via GBIF
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Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0); common names, US characteristics from USDA PLANTS Database (2025-05-29, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.