velvet-leaf

The stump was there, a bit lower and more worn at the crevices, leaking sawdust like an overloved doll -- but the low shrub had become a tall sapling, the weeds -- vervain, boneset, velvet-leaf -- all had been topped and killed off by dense-foliaged bushes and shrubs, which a year before had not raised a leaf above the meadow level.

Edge of the Jungle William Beebe 1919

In my section an annoying weed is abutilon, or velvet-leaf, also called "old maid," which has fallen from the grace of the garden and followed the plow afield.

The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton John Burroughs 1879