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Descriptive Flora 



A good creeper on wood or stone. Resembles the common 

 Virginia Creeper but is not as rank in growth. Usually found 

 creeping on trunks of trees or over fences. Widespread but not 

 common. Very attractive in the fall when the leaves turn 

 scarlet. 



MALVACEAE. Mallow Family. 

 Abutilon inoaniom (Link) Sweet. Indian Mallow. 



Much branched plants, 1 to 3 feet tall, with velvety leaves 

 and small 5-petaled, orange-colored flowers. Leaf-blades thin, 

 velvety, y 2 to 4" long, ovate, sharp-pointed, toothed, heart-shaped 

 at base. Petioles as long as the blades or shorter. Flowers 

 orange-yellow, y 2 to % inch across, solitary on slender pedicels, 

 in the axils of the leaves. Petals 5. Stamens many, united at 

 base. Fruit a rounded capsule, %" high, and 7 to 9-angled at 

 summit. April to October. Rocky hillsides. 



Wissadula Tvolosericea (Scheele) Garcke. Velvet Leaf 



Similar to Indian Mallow but with stems woody near the 

 ground, and leaf -blades thicker, much longer, wider, coarsely but 

 shallowly toothed, often shallowly 3-lobed. Flowers larger, 1" 

 or more across, and fruit separating into 5 hairy carpels, each 

 carpel having a cross partition in it, which Abutilon does not 

 have. April to October. Prefers limestone soils. 



Malva parviflora L. Cheeses. 



Plants with spreading branches, 1 to 2' long, long-petioled 

 leaves with blades broader than long, and 1 to 5 whitish or purple 

 tinged flowers about y 2 across, in the axils of the leaves. Leaves 

 simple, alternate. Leaf-blades reniform or suborbicular, angu- 

 lately-lobed, the lobes finely scalloped, veins several at base. 

 Petioles several times longer than the blades. Petals 5, white or 

 purplish. Fruit similar to a cultivated hollyhock, only smaller 

 (about y£ across). March to June. Rare. In waste places. 



