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Plant ID - Southeast Texas - prickly sida (Sida spinosa)

Jonathan Pennington

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posted 10 years ago

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Can you help identify this plant? We are in Hockley, Texas and this stuff is taking over!

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Alder Burns

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posted 10 years ago

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I'm pretty sure it's prickly sida (Sida spinosa). It's about the toughest stem of any plant I know of, except perhaps the Western starthistle. Goats will eat it, and I've often wondered whether it could be retted in water and a usable fiber made of it.....

Kim Feehery

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posted 8 years ago

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I know the deer LOVE it in the winter.

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