Abutilon viscosum(L.) Dorr

viscid mallow

WFO wfo-0001421651 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Abutilon viscosum, photographed by Center for Urban Ecology
fig. a Center for Urban Ecology, CC0 1.0 / 2022-05-18 / obs. 198699563
Abutilon viscosum, photographed by Center for Urban Ecology
fig. b Center for Urban Ecology, CC0 1.0 / obs. 186727824
Abutilon viscosum, photographed by Center for Urban Ecology
fig. c Center for Urban Ecology, CC0 1.0 / obs. 178043681
Abutilon viscosum, photographed by Lauren McLaurin
fig. d Lauren McLaurin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 111167684
Abutilon viscosum, photographed by Eric Knight
fig. e Eric Knight, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 84121757
Abutilon viscosum, photographed by Eric Knight
fig. f Eric Knight, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 71217211
Abutilon viscosum, photographed by Eric Knight
fig. g Eric Knight, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 71240745
Abutilon viscosum, photographed by stinger
fig. h stinger, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 43234527

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Native range 33 botanical countries

Regions where Abutilon viscosum is native: Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Texas, Argentina Northwest, Aruba, Bahamas, Bolivia, Cayman Is., Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Galápagos, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Trinidad-Tobago, Turks-Caicos Is., Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, Windward Is. Mexico CentralMexico GulfMexico NortheastMexico NorthwestMexico SoutheastMexico SouthwestTexasArgentina NorthwestBoliviaColombiaCosta RicaCubaDominican RepublicEcuadorHaitiHondurasJamaicaNicaraguaPanamáParaguayPeruPuerto RicoTrinidad-TobagoVenezuela ArubaBahamasCayman Is.GalápagosLeeward Is.Netherlands AntillesTurks-Caicos Is.Venezuelan AntillesWindward Is.
Native distribution of Abutilon viscosum, 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. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Argentina Northwest AGW SOUTHERN AMERICA
Aruba ARU
Bahamas BAH
Bolivia BOL
Cayman Is. CAY
Colombia CLM
Costa Rica COS
Cuba CUB
Dominican Republic DOM
Ecuador ECU
Galápagos GAL
Haiti HAI
Honduras HON
Jamaica JAM
Leeward Is. LEE
Netherlands Antilles NLA
Nicaragua NIC
Panamá PAN
Paraguay PAR
Peru PER
Puerto Rico PUE
Trinidad-Tobago TRT
Turks-Caicos Is. TCI
Venezuela VEN
Venezuelan Antilles VNA
Windward Is. WIN
Mexico Central MXC NORTHERN AMERICA
Mexico Gulf MXG
Mexico Northeast MXE
Mexico Northwest MXN
Mexico Southeast MXT
Mexico Southwest MXS
Texas TEX

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 119 in flower of 127 examined

Peak flowering in Jun. Each bar is the share of Abutilon viscosum 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. 119 of 127 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 24 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 circinatum (Willd. ex Spreng.) G.Don
  • Abutilon circinnatum G.Don
  • Abutilon foetidum (Cav.) Moench
  • Bastardia cubensis Gand.
  • Bastardia foetida (Cav.) Sweet
  • Bastardia guayquilensis Turcz.
  • Bastardia parvifolia Kunth
  • Bastardia viscosa (L.) Kunth
  • Bastardia viscosa f. crenulata R.E.Fr.
  • Bastardia viscosa f. subtriloba R.E.Fr.
  • Bastardia viscosa var. abutiloides R.E.Fr.
  • Bastardia viscosa var. cubensis (Gand.) R.E.Fr.
  • Bastardia viscosa var. luteovirens Hochr.
  • Bastardia viscosa var. macrantha R.E.Fr.
  • Bastardia viscosa var. novogranatensis R.E.Fr.
  • Bastardia viscosa var. parvifolia (Kunth) Griseb.
  • Bastardia viscosa var. typica R.E.Fr.
  • Sida bastardia DC.
  • Sida brevipes DC.
  • Sida circinnata Willd. ex Spreng.
  • Sida foetida Cav.
  • Sida magdalenae DC.
  • Sida sordida Willd. ex Spreng.
  • Sida viscosa L.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. USDA PLANTS Database. common name, checklist symbol BAVI4. public domain. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. 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.

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