| Family | Scientific Name | Common Name | Habitat | Distribution | Image |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Malvaceae | Sida abutilifolia | Creeping Sida, Spreading Fanpetals | Rockland hammocks (FL), coastal rock barrens (FL), rocky or sandy grasslands or woodlands, dry disturbed areas. | S. Florida; West Indies; sw. United States (Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona) south through Mexico and Central America to South America. Sometimes (unwarrantedly) considered all or partly introduced in the United States. | |
| Malvaceae | Sida antillensis | West Indian Sida | Disturbed coastal uplands, sandy areas. | S. Florida (where possibly only introduced); West Indies; Central America. | |
| Malvaceae | Sida ciliaris | Bracted Sida, Fringed Sida, Salmon Sida | Dry open areas, disturbed areas. | E., se., and s. Texas south to Mexico; West Indies; South America. Found as an apparent waif in Mobile County, Alabama by Howard Horne (pers.comm., 2025). | |
| Malvaceae | Sida cordata | Waif on ore piles. | Native of tropical and subtropical Asia. | ![]() (c) Lin, Cheng-Tao - CC-BY | |
| Malvaceae | Sida cordifolia | Malva Blanca, Greatleaf Sida, Llima, Flannelweed | Disturbed sandhills, disturbed hammocks, roadsides, disturbed areas. | Native of Old World tropics (perhaps India). | ![]() (c) Horn, Jay |
| Malvaceae | Sida elliottii var. elliottii | Coastal Plain Sida | Stream banks, sandy openings, pineland pond margins, limestone glades and barrens, mesic hammocks. | Var. elliottii ranges from se. Virginia south to n. Florida, west to Louisiana and north in the interior to c. Tennessee and se. Missouri. | ![]() (c) Aaron, Nathan |
| Malvaceae | Sida elliottii var. parviflora | Chapman’s Sida | Pine rocklands, mesic pine flatwoods, disturbed uplands. | Peninsular Florida; se. Texas south into montane e. Mexico to Guatemala. | |
| Malvaceae | Sida glabra var. glabra | Smooth Sida | Agricultural and urban areas. | Native of Neotropics. | ![]() (c) González, Oscar - CC-BY-SA |
| Malvaceae | Sida lindheimeri | Showy Sida | Beaches, open sandy areas, open woodlands, scrub, disturbed areas. | Native of Texas south into Mexico (Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León, Tamaulipas, Veracruz). | |
| Malvaceae | Sida linifolia | Flaxleaf Sida | On ballast, last collected in 1886 and seemingly only a waif. | Native of West Indies. | ![]() (c) P, Ben - CC-BY |
| Malvaceae | Sida littoralis | Florida Sida | Maritime hammocks, disturbed open areas. | Apparently endemic to c. peninsular Florida (Lee County, Captiva and La Costa islands) | |
| Malvaceae | Sida planicaulis | Flatstem Sida, Brazilian Wireweed | Disturbed oak hammocks. | Native of Brazil. | |
| Malvaceae | Sida rhombifolia var. rhombifolia | Arrowleaf Sida, Axocatzin, Gombo de Sainte Jeanne (frc) | Roadsides, fields, gardens, disturbed areas. | Southeastern North America west to Texas, south through Mexico, Central America, and n. South America; West Indies; the original distribution of this species is uncertain, but Fryxell & Hill (2015m) and POWO (2024) suggest it is native to the Old World tropics. | ![]() (c) Hill, Sonnia |
| Malvaceae | Sida rubromarginata | Redleaf Sida | Disturbed areas. | Endemic to peninsular Florida (reported from Leon, Hillsborough and Sarasota counties). | |
| Malvaceae | Sida santaremensis | Brazilian Sida, Moth Fanpetals | Sandy disturbed areas. | Native of South America. | |
| Malvaceae | Sida spinosa | Prickly Sida, Prickly-mallow, False-mallow, Herbe à serpent (frc) | Disturbed areas, wet fields. | Native of the Neotropics and Paleotropics. | ![]() (c) Ware, Richard & Teresa - CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG |
| Malvaceae | Sida tragiifolia | On limestone or caliche. | S. Texas, w. Texas, and s. Arizona south to n. Mexico (Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León, Sonora, Tamaulipas). | ||
| Malvaceae | Sida ulmifolia | Broomweed, Wireweed | Disturbed areas. | Native of the Tropics, the original northern limit uncertain. Usually considered native in peninsular Florida, but the area of nativity uncertain. | ![]() (c) Horn, Jay |
| Malvaceae | Sida urens | Bristly Sida, Tropical Fanpetals | Disturbed areas. | Native of tropical America. Discovered as an introduction in Broward County in 2008 (Fryxell & Hill 2015m). | ![]() (c) Lourencini, Helio - CC-BY |








