Anoda cristata

Erect annual or sometimes perennial herb to c. 80 cm high; branches usually hirsute. Leaves triangular-ovate, 3.5–10 cm long, 3–9.5 cm wide, usually 3–5-lobed; base cuneate; margins coarsely dentate; both surfaces with sparse to moderately dense long simple hairs; petiole 2–4 cm long. Flowers solitary, axillary; pedicels 2–6 cm long; calyx lobes 7–11 mm long, elongating to 15 mm in fruit, long-acuminate, densely hirsute or bristly; petals usually pale purple, whitish at the base, 8–12 mm long. Fruit transversely elliptic, 10–20 mm diam., remaining on the widely spreading calyx; mericarps 9–20, bristly or hirsute, beaked dorsally. Flowers mostly summer.