The Jepson Manual: Higher Plants of California

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Names are linked to treatments from the Manual


Key to ABUTILON

N.B.: couplets are linked, e.g., 1. is linked to 1'.

  1. Annual; leaf generally 10–20 cm wide; fruit segments > 10, beaks 3–5 mm, spreading; alien weed
A. theophrasti
  1' Perennial or shrub; leaf 1–5 cm wide; fruit segments generally < 10, beaks 1–2 mm; native
 
    2. Petals 10–20 mm, orange; fruit segments generally 7–10, = or < calyx
A. palmeri
    2' Petals 3–6 mm, orange-pink to red; fruit segments generally 5, >> calyx
A. parvulum


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