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Baker's globe mallow, Baker's globemallow or wild hollyhock, Baker's wild hollyhock

Stems

0.3–1.2 m;

herbage harshly stellate-hairy.

Leaf

blades shallowly and crenately 3-lobed or deeply 3- or 5-lobed with terminal lobe narrowly oblong and toothed apically, 1.5–8 cm wide, lobes triangular, base cuneate to truncate, margins irregularly serrate, sinuses narrow.

Inflorescences

solitary flowers or few-flowered clusters;

involucellar bractlets linear to subulate, 5–8 × 1 mm, ca. 1/2 – 2/3 calyx length.

Flowers

calyx 9–12 mm, lobes broadly ovate, 4–6 × 4–6 mm, ± as wide as long, ± equaling tube;

petals rose-purple, 1.5–3 cm.

Seeds

3 or 4, dark brown, 2 mm, finely stellate-puberulent.

Schizocarps

depressed-globose, 10–15 mm diam.;

mericarps ca. 10–12, 8–10 mm.

Iliamna bakeri

Phenology Flowering Jun–Aug.
Habitat Juniper woodlands, lava beds, conifer forests, chaparral, mountain slopes, rangeland, sometimes disturbed areas
Elevation 1000–2500 m (3300–8200 ft)
Distribution
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CA; OR
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Discussion

Iliamna bakeri is found in Modoc, Shasta, and Siskiyou counties in California, and Klamath County in Oregon.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Source FNA vol. 6, p. 272.
Parent taxa Malvaceae > subfam. Malvoideae > Iliamna
Sibling taxa
I. corei, I. crandallii, I. grandiflora, I. latibracteata, I. longisepala, I. remota, I. rivularis
Synonyms Sphaeralcea bakeri
Name authority (Jepson) Wiggins: Contr. Dudley Herb. 1: 228. (1936)
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