Anoda cristata

{{Short description|Plant species in the mallow family}}

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| genus = Anoda

| species = cristata

| authority = (L.) Schltdl.

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| Anoda acerifolia var. minoriflora | Hochr.

| Anoda arizonica | A.Gray

| Anoda arizonica var. digitata | A.Gray

| Anoda brachyantha | Rchb.

| Anoda dilleniana | Cav.

| Anoda fernandeziana | Steud.

| Anoda hastata | Cav.

| Anoda incarnata | Spreng. ex Steud.

| Anoda lavateroides | Medik.

| Anoda populifolia | Phil.

| Anoda triangularis | (Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.) DC.

| Anoda triangularis var. digitata | (A.Gray) B.L.Rob.

| Anoda triloba | Cav.

| Cavanillea hastata | (Cav.) Medik.

| Sida centrota | Spreng.

| Sida cristata | L.

| Sida deltoidea | Hornem.

| Sida dilleniana | (Cav.) Willd.

| Sida hastata | Sims

| Sida hastata | (Cav.) Willd.

| Sida mexicana | Scop.

| Sida quinqueangulata | D.Dietr.

| Sida quinqueloba | DC.

| Sida quinqueloba | Moc. & Sessé

| Sida suberosa | Steud.

| Sida triangularis | Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.

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Anoda cristata is a species of flowering plant in the mallow family known by many common names, including spurred anoda,{{BSBI 2007 |access-date=2014-10-17}} crested anoda,{{PLANTS|id=ANCR2|taxon=Anoda cristata|accessdate=8 January 2016}} and violettas. It is native to North and South America. It is known throughout the rest of the Americas as well as Australia as an introduced species and often a noxious weed. It has been found as a weed in Belgium.{{Cite web|title=Anoda cristata|url=http://alienplantsbelgium.be/content/anoda-cristata|url-status=live|access-date=May 17, 2021|website=Manual of the Alien Plants of Belgium|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210517151527/http://alienplantsbelgium.be/content/anoda-cristata |archive-date=2021-05-17 }} Naturally, it is often found near streams, in moist meadows, and in disturbed areas.{{Cite web|title=Anoda cristata, Crested Anoda, Southwest Desert Flora|url=http://southwestdesertflora.com/WebsiteFolders/All_Species/Malvaceae/Anoda%20cristata,%20Crested%20Anoda.html|access-date=2021-05-17|website=southwestdesertflora.com}}

This is an annual herb reaching a maximum erect height between one half and one meter.{{Cite web|title=Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center - The University of Texas at Austin|url=https://www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=ancr2|access-date=2021-05-17|website=www.wildflower.org}} The stem is ridged and branching. The plant is variable in morphology, especially in leaf shape, but leaves are usually somewhat triangular, and hairy. Solitary flowers grow in the leaf axils on long pedicels.{{Cite web|title=SEINet Portal Network - Anoda cristata|url=https://swbiodiversity.org/seinet/taxa/index.php?taxon=3669&clid=3121|access-date=2021-05-17|website=swbiodiversity.org}} The flower is 2 to 3 centimeters wide, with pointed green to reddish sepals and 5 petals, which may be blueish-purple or reddish-pink in color.{{Cite web|title=Anoda cristata (crested anoda): Go Botany|url=https://gobotany.nativeplanttrust.org/species/anoda/cristata/|access-date=2021-05-17|website=gobotany.nativeplanttrust.org}} The fruit is a bristly, disc-shaped capsule with 9 to 20 segments. Each segment produces a seed. This is sometimes an agricultural weed, especially of soybeans.Puricelli, E. C. and D. E. Faccini. (2005). Effect of soybean spatial arrangement and glyphosate dose on Anoda cristata demography. Crop Protection 24:3 241-49. It is tolerated as a weed of crop fields in parts of Mexico, and even fostered, because it is eaten and used as a source of medicinal remedies.Rendón, B., R. Bye, and J. Núñez-Farfán. (2001). Ethnobotany of Anoda cristata (L.) Schl. (Malvaceae) in central Mexico: Uses, management and population differentiation in the community of Santiago Mamalhuazuca, Ozumba, state of Mexico. Economic Botany 55:4 545-54.