Abutilon theophrasti

Upright annual to 100 cm tall; branchlets densely tomentose with simple glandular and sessile stellate hairs. Leaves broadly ovate, 1.5–18 cm long, 1.5–16 cm wide, slightly discolorous; base cordate; apex abruptly acuminate. Flowers solitary or in racemes; calyx 5-ribbed, campanulate, 6–10 mm long; lobes ovate, lined on the acuminate to acute apex; corolla yellow, exceeding calyx; lobes 7–8.5 mm long, rounded apically, not ciliate at base; staminal column c. 1 mm long, glabrous; styles 10–12. Fruit blackish, 10–15 mm high, tomentose, adjacent mericarps adhering for three-quarters or more of their surface, tardily separating; mericarps 3-seeded, c. 13 mm high, 5.5 mm wide, with apical awn 2.5–4.5 mm long, pointing outwards or upwards. Flowering late spring, summer and autumn.