Prickly Sida

Common: Prickly Sida (also known as tea weed, spring sida, Indian mallow and false mallow)

Scientific: Sida spinosa

Affected Crops: Corn, cotton, soybeans, tobacco.

Identification: The seedling can be identified by its heart-shaped cotyledons with small notches at the tips. The plant has short spine-like projections at the base of each leaf as well as serrated leaf margins throughout. Additional characteristics are its short peduncles and long petioles.

Geographical Distribution: Is abundant throughout the Southeast to Texas into Kansas and Missouri, occasionally as far north as Michigan and New England.

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