Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Sida trichopoda
Common name
Hairy Sida, Narrow-leaf Sida
Family
Malvaceae
Where found
Woodland, grassland, flood plains, and ephemeral lake beds. Western Slopes
Notes
Perennial herb to 0.75 m tall. Stems hairless to densely stellate-hairy (needs a hand lens or a macro app on your phone/tablet to see). Leaves alternating up the stems, mostly 1-3 cm long, 1-15 mm wide, both surfaces green and stellate-hairy or the lower surface hairless, margins toothed to entire. Flowers yellow, with 5 petals each 3–15 mm long, often deeply notched. Flowers single, on stalks 10–60 mm long.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Sida~trichopoda (accessed 7 February, 2021)
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