Plant: Annual herb; ca. 1 m tall, the stems minutely stellate- and glandular-pubescent

Leaves: ovate to hastate, minutely pubescent, sometimes with purplish blotch along midvein

INFLORESCENCE: usually in open raceme or panicle

Flowers: calyx 3.5-6 mm long (6-88 mm in fruit); petals 4-7 mm long, bluish purple; staminal column pubescent, 1.5-2(-4) mm long, the anthers few and subsessile; styles 6-8.

Fruit: FRUITS a schizocarp, oblate, minutely pubescent, 6-8 mm diameter; mericarps 6-8, with dorsal spurs to 1 mm long; SEEDS 2-2.5 mm long, without endocarp

Misc: In open, well-drained habitats; 1400-1700 m (4500-5500 ft); Aug.-Nov

REFERENCES: Fryxell, Paul A. 1994. Malvaceae. J. Ariz. - Nev. Acad. Sci. Volume 27(2), 222-236.

Duration: Annual

Nativity: Native

Lifeform: Herb

General: Herbaceous annuals, erect to ca. 1 m tall; the stems minutely stellate- and glandular-pubescent.

Leaves: Ovate to hastate, minutely pubescent, sometimes with purplish blotch along midvein.

Flowers: Inflorescence usually in open raceme or panicle; calyx 3.5-6 mm long (6-88 mm in fruit); petals 4-7 mm long, bluish purple; staminal column pubescent, 1.5-2(-4) mm long, the anthers few and subsessile; styles 6-8

Fruits: Schizocarp, oblate, minutely pubescent, 6-8 mm diameter; mericarps 6-8, with dorsal spurs to 1 mm long; seeds 2-2.5 mm long, without endocarp.

Ecology: Found in open, well-drained habitats and from uderneath shrubs in Mesquite grasslands and Chihuahuan scrub; 4500-5500 ft (1400-1700 m); flowering Aug.-Nov.

Distribution: se AZ and n, c and s MX.

Notes: Can be confused with A. cristata but distinguished from it and other Anodas by its often erect, delicate habit, stems with glandular hairs, light lavender-pink flowers which are 4-7mm (8-26 mm in cristata) long and fruits with 6-8 mericarps or fruit sections (10-19 in cristata).

Ethnobotany: unknown

Synonyms: None

Editor: FSCoburn 2014

Etymology: Anoda is either a Sinhalese (Ceylonese) name for a species of Abutilon, or Umberto Quattrocchi gives two alternative etymologies: (1) "from the Greek a, "without," and odous, odontos, "a tooth," for the leaves; and (2) from the Greek a, "without," and the Latin nodus, "a joint or node," since the flowering stems lack nodes; thurberi is named for George Thurber, prominant Arizona collector.