Flora of North America species comparison

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Eremalche exilis

white mallow
Habit Plants prostrate to decumbent; stems sometimes flushed with purple-maroon, branched or unbranched, 2–40 cm, obscurely stellate-hairy.
Leaf

blades 3- or 5-cleft or -lobed to ± 1/2 to base, 1–2.5 cm wide, divisions entire or 3-toothed at tip.
Inflorescences

seldom exceeding leaves, sometimes basal.
Pedicels

0.2–1 cm, longer in fruit;

involucellar bractlets threadlike to linear, 3.3–5.5(–7) mm.
Flowers

calyx 4–5.5(–7) mm, lobes 3–5 × 1.5–2.5 mm;

petals white or pale rose-lavender, 4–5.5 mm, equaling calyx.
Mericarps

9–13, brownish to blackish, ± wedge-shaped, cushionlike, 1.4–1.8 mm, margins rounded, radially corrugated.
2n

= 20, 40.

Eremalche exilis
Phenology Flowering late winter–spring.
Habitat Sandy or rocky desert soil
Elevation 100–1500 m (300–4900 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
AZ; CA; NV; UT; Mexico (Baja California, Sonora)
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Discussion

Eremalche exilis occurs in the Mojave and Sonoran deserts.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 6, p. 247.
Parent taxa Malvaceae > subfam. Malvoideae > Eremalche
Sibling taxa
E. parryi, E. rotundifolia
Synonyms Malvastrum exile, Sphaeralcea exilis
Name authority (A. Gray) Greene: Leafl. Bot. Observ. Crit. 1: 208. (1906)
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