Velvetleaf     Information
INVASIVE
Scientific Name:Abutilon theophrasti


NOTES: Seeds can survive over 50 years in the soil. Native to southern Asia.

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Velvetleaf
Genus species: Abutilon theophrasti
Common Name: Velvetleaf
Family Name: Malvaceae  
Annual and perennial herbs, or shrubs; leaves alternate, simple, often palmately veined, stipulate; flowers bisexual, regular, mostly solitary or clustered in leaf axils; fruit a capsule, sometimes splitting into mericarps.
Seed Type: Angiosperm
Origin:  
Native: native to North America.
Non-native: not native to North America.
Introduced Native: native to North
America, but not Rowe Woods.
* Definitions based on the USDA
terminology
Nonnative
Category:Wildflower
Flower Color:Yellow
Identified by:A. Swanson
Months in Bloom:  
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