Abutilon incanum (Hoary Indian-mallow)

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Abutilon incanum, photographed by Craig Martin — fig. a Craig Martin, CC0 1.0 / 2022-02-22 / obs. 180415074

Abutilon incanum, photographed by Kevin Faccenda — fig. b Kevin Faccenda, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 179807365

Abutilon incanum, photographed by Brian Finzel — fig. c Brian Finzel, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 172802633

Abutilon incanum, photographed by Eric Knight — fig. e Eric Knight, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 92976234

Abutilon incanum, photographed by Millie Basden — fig. h Millie Basden, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 56551349

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Native range 6 botanical countries

Native distribution of Abutilon incanum, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
Arizona	ARI	NORTHERN AMERICA
Colorado	COL
Mexico Northeast	MXE
Mexico Northwest	MXN
Mexico Southwest	MXS
New Mexico	NWM

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Flowering 62 in flower of 122 examined

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71%

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69%

56%

40%

Proportion of examined Abutilon incanum in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	6	12	50%	25% to 75%
Feb	6	10	60%	31% to 83%
Mar	15	21	71%	50% to 86%
Apr	5	24	21%	9% to 40%
May	3	5	60%	23% to 88%
Jun	1	3	too few examined
Jul	1	5	20%	4% to 62%
Aug	3	4	too few examined
Sep	4	6	67%	30% to 90%
Oct	9	13	69%	42% to 87%
Nov	5	9	56%	27% to 81%
Dec	4	10	40%	17% to 69%

Peak flowering in Mar. Each bar is the share of Abutilon incanum observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 62 of 122 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 2 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 6 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

Abutilon incanum subsp. pringlei (Hochr.) Felger
Abutilon mochisense Hochr.
Abutilon pringlei Hochr.
Abutilon pringlei var. sinaloense Hochr.
Abutilon pringlei var. sinaloensis Hochr.
Sida incana Link

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.