Eremalche parryi
Eremalche parryi subsp. kernensis
Parry's mallow
Kern mallow
blades 3-cleft to beyond middle, usually 2–5 cm wide, divisions toothed to subcleft distally.
usually exceeding leaves.
mostly 1–8 cm, longer in fruit;
involucellar bractlets linear, (2.5–)4–10(–15) mm.
usually 1–5 cm in flower;
involucellar bractlets (3–)4–7(–10) mm in bisexual flowers, (2.5–)4–6(–8) mm in pistillate flowers.
bisexual or pistillate;
calyx 4.5–13 mm, lobes 3.2–11 × 1.5–4 mm;
petals white or pale to deep mauve, 5.5–20(–25) mm, equaling or exceeding calyx.
bisexual or pistillate;
petals white or mauve.
calyx 4.5–7.5(–10) mm, lobes 3.2–6.5(–8) × 1.5–2.5(–3.5) mm;
petals 5.5–13 mm, ± equaling to slightly exceeding calyx.
calyx 5–9(–10) mm, lobes 3.5–7(–8) × 1.7–3(–3.5) mm;
petals 8–20(–25) mm, exceeding calyx.
9–22, brownish to blackish, ± wedge-shaped, cushionlike, 1.5–1.8 mm, margins rounded, radially corrugated.
9–13 in bisexual flowers, 13–19 in pistillate flowers.
= 20.
Eremalche parryi
Eremalche parryi subsp. kernensis
Subspecies 2 (2 in the flora).
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Of conservation concern.
Subspecies kernensis occurs in the southernmost inner South Coast Ranges and the southern San Joaquin Valley in Kern and San Luis Obispo counties.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
1. Flowers bisexual; petals mauve; calyx 10–14 mm, lobes 2.5–4 mm wide. | subsp. parryi |
1. Flowers bisexual or pistillate; petals white or mauve, (proportionally smaller and carpels more numerous in female flowers); calyx 4.5–9(–10) mm, lobes 1.5–3(–3.5) mm wide. | subsp. kernensis |
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