Abutilon hulseanum
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Mauve
Malvaceae
Also known as Sida huselana
Plant Specifics
| Form: | Shrub | |
| Size: | Up to about 7ft tall, rangy unless cut back periofically. Somewhat shrubby but not really woody. | |
| Life Span: | Short-lived perennial | |
| Flower Color: | Orangy pink | |
| Fruit Color: | Brown | |
| Phenology: | Blooms late winter, early spring. | |
| Noted for: | Showy flowers |
Landscaping
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| Considerations: | Noted for being weedy. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Propagation: | Easily grown from seed. Can be bought from several native nurseries. Will spread. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Availability: | Native nurseries, Seed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Light: | Full Sun, Part Shade | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Moisture Tolerance: |
always floodedextremely dry |
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| (Not wet but not extremely dry ----- to ----- Somewhat long very dry periods) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Moisture Tolerance: | Not wet but not extremely dry ----- to ----- Somewhat long very dry periods | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Salt Water Flooding Tolerance: | Unknown | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Salt Spray/ Salty Soil Tolerance: | Some tolerance to salty wind but not direct salt spray. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Soil or other substrate: | Clay, Sand | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Soil pH: | Slightly acidic to calcareous | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ecology
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| Native Habitats: | Disturbed. Old orange groves, pasture, roadsides. May occur naturally along the west FL coast including shell mounds and dunes . All records for inland areas are from disturbed sites, predominantly old orange groves and pastures. |
Distribution and Planting Zones
Natural Range in Florida
USDA Zones
Suitable to grow in:
10A 10B 11 9A 9B
USDA zones are based on minimum winter temperatures
Comments
| Ethnobotany: | No known uses. | |
| General Comments: | According to Kew Gardens, it is from Central America and probably Cuba and Florida. After going through the photos and labels for specimens in the SIEnet database, the only occurrences in Florida that were convincingly in natural systems (as opposed to highly disturbed areas) were on shell mounds, dunes, and similar coastal areas. Hence, the range map provided highlights the counties along the west coast that have these. Noted as invasive and weedy on many herbarium specimen labels. Where not native, we should think of it as invasive. |