Sida cordifolia subsp. cordifolia, flannelweed

The petals of Sida cordifolia subsp. cordifolia may be yellow to almost white and delicately thin. Here they are white, forming a shallow cup around an ample yellow mass of stamens emerging from the central staminal column.

This Indian immigrant is called a pantrop, i.e. a weed that invades worldwide in tropical regions. It lives in places like Asia, Polynesia, Hawaii, central America and Africa, as well as at Mjejane.

The plant flowers all year round. It is browsed by cattle, probably by game (Pooley, 1998; Van Wyk and Malan, 1997; Onderstall, 1996; Leistner, (Ed.), 2000; iNaturalist).