Flora of North America species comparison

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Pavonia hastata

pale pavonia, pink pavonia, spearleaf swampmallow
Habit Subshrubs, 0.5 m. Stems stellate-hairy, hairs 0.1 mm.
Leaves

stipules subulate, 2 mm;

petiole to 1/3 length of blade;

blade discolorous, ovate-triangular to hastate-oblong, to 7 cm, base cordate, margins coarsely crenate, apex column with 5 apical teeth, glabrous;

stigmas included, glabrous;

flowers sometimes cleistogamous, smaller, petals shorter than calyx, stamens 5.
Seeds

minutely puberulent.
Schizocarps

pale green, maturing dark brown to ± black, 6 mm diam., puberulent;

mericarps without spines, dorsally keeled, 4 mm, reticulate-costate.
2n

= 56.

Pavonia hastata
Phenology Flowering spring–fall.
Habitat Sandy soil on coastal plains
Elevation 100 m (300 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
FL; GA; TX; South America (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay) [Introduced in North America; introduced also in Mexico, Australia]
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Discussion

Pavonia hastata is often cultivated and has escaped in limited areas. The flowers appear to be seasonally cleistogamous, and these are usually not present when chasmogamous flowers predominate.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 6, p. 306.
Parent taxa Malvaceae > subfam. Malvoideae > Pavonia
Sibling taxa
P. lasiopetala, P. paludicola, P. spinifex
Synonyms Malva lecontei, P. jonesii, P. lecontei
Name authority Cavanilles: Diss. 3: 138, plate 47, fig. 2. (1787)
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