Kauaʻi record · kba_plant_sida_cordifolia
Sida cordifolia
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About Sida cordifolia
An erect velvety subshrub with dense whitish-to-yellowish stellate hairs. Serrate ovate-to-oblong leaves generally have shallow heart-shaped bases. Pale-yellow flowers develop into brownish wheel-like fruits, usually eight to twelve segments, each with two long backward-hairy apical awns. Established wild occurrence warrants observations of occupied cover, reproductive plants and new recruits. These measurements can test persistence and spread. The reviewed accounts do not quantify an island-wide effect on Kauaʻi native vegetation.
Kauaʻi evidence
Generated media is not occurrence evidence. Proposed monitoring endpoints are not reported observations, measured effects or causal findings.
Names and classification
- Scientific name
- Sida cordifolia
- Other names
- Sida cordifolia
- Record type
- Species
Kauaʻi occurrence and status
- Kauaʻi occurrence
- Recorded on Kauaʻi
- Origin
- Introduced
- Conservation status
- Not yet assessed
- Evidence date
- 2026-10-07
- Evidence limits
- Island-level public occurrence only. Preserve velvety heart-based foliage and long paired fruit awns, rather than Sida spinosa's five shorter-awned segments.
Habitat and ecology
- Habitats
- Not yet assessed
- Food and resource needs
- Not yet assessed
- Reproduction
- Not yet assessed
- Shelter
- Not yet assessed
- Growth form
- Shrub or subshrub; Erect subshrubs 0.5-1.5 m tall, whitish to yellowish stellate velutinous or stellate tomentose.
Threats and conservation
- Monitoring
- Occupied area and vegetation cover; Mature plants and new recruits; Reproductive plants and fruiting frequency. Proposed monitoring endpoints are not reported observations, measured effects or causal findings.
- Data gaps
- Current island extent and population trend · Measured local ecological effects
Process and seasonal context
- Seasonal timing
- Not yet assessed
- Seasonal description
- An erect velvety subshrub with dense whitish-to-yellowish stellate hairs. Serrate ovate-to-oblong leaves generally have shallow heart-shaped bases. Pale-yellow flowers develop into brownish wheel-like fruits, usually eight to twelve segments, each with two long backward-hairy apical awns. Established wild occurrence warrants observations of occupied cover, reproductive plants and new recruits. These measurements can test persistence and spread. The reviewed accounts do not quantify an island-wide effect on Kauaʻi native vegetation.