Flora of North America species comparison

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Iliamna remota

Kankakee globe-mallow, Kankakee mallow
Stems

1–2.5 m;

herbage densely to sparsely stellate-hairy.
Leaf

blades (3-), 5-, or 7-lobed, 6–20 cm wide, lobes broadly triangular-ovate, base truncate to cordate, margins crenate-dentate, sinuses broad, obtuse.
Inflorescences

clusters forming interrupted racemes distally;

involucellar bractlets linear, 6–9 × 1 mm, 1/2–2/3 as long as calyx.
Flowers

fragrant;

calyx 12–18 mm, lobes broadly ovate-acuminate, 6–8 mm, ± as wide as long, ± equaling tube;

petals pale rose-purple, 2.5–3 cm.
Seeds

2 or 3(or 4), dark brown, 3 mm, densely hairy.
Schizocarps

15 mm diam.;

mericarps 15, 10 mm.
2n

= 66.

Iliamna remota
Phenology Flowering Jun–Aug.
Habitat Open woods and rocky slopes, riverbanks, shores and gravel bars of rivers, abandoned cultivated fields in sandy clay loam
Elevation 100–200 m (300–700 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
IL; IN; VA
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Discussion

Iliamna remota is known from Langham Island opposite Altorf in the Kankakee River (about nine miles northwest of Kankakee, Illinois), where it persists as the only certain wild locality; it now may occasionally escape from cultivation or deliberate introduction, as apparently was the case of a naturalized population found in the 1940s in swale about two miles east of New Paris, Indiana. It was apparently distributed along railroads by enthusiastic wildflower groups in the last century. Iliamna remota is listed as endangered by the state of Illinois.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 6, p. 270.
Parent taxa Malvaceae > subfam. Malvoideae > Iliamna
Sibling taxa
I. bakeri, I. corei, I. crandallii, I. grandiflora, I. latibracteata, I. longisepala, I. rivularis
Synonyms Phymosia remota, Sphaeralcea remota
Name authority Greene: Leafl. Bot. Obs. Crit. 1: 206. (1906)
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