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Kankakee globe-mallow, Kankakee mallow

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

Stems

1–2.5 m;

herbage densely to sparsely stellate-hairy.

0.3–1.2 m;

herbage harshly 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.

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

clusters forming interrupted racemes distally;

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

solitary flowers or few-flowered clusters;

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

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.

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

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

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

Schizocarps

15 mm diam.;

mericarps 15, 10 mm.

depressed-globose, 10–15 mm diam.;

mericarps ca. 10–12, 8–10 mm.

2n

= 66.

Iliamna remota

Iliamna bakeri

Phenology Flowering Jun–Aug. Flowering Jun–Aug.
Habitat Open woods and rocky slopes, riverbanks, shores and gravel bars of rivers, abandoned cultivated fields in sandy clay loam Juniper woodlands, lava beds, conifer forests, chaparral, mountain slopes, rangeland, sometimes disturbed areas
Elevation 100–200 m (300–700 ft) 1000–2500 m (3300–8200 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
IL; IN; VA
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from FNA
CA; OR
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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.)

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. 270. FNA vol. 6, p. 272.
Parent taxa Malvaceae > subfam. Malvoideae > Iliamna Malvaceae > subfam. Malvoideae > Iliamna
Sibling taxa
I. bakeri, I. corei, I. crandallii, I. grandiflora, I. latibracteata, I. longisepala, I. rivularis
I. corei, I. crandallii, I. grandiflora, I. latibracteata, I. longisepala, I. remota, I. rivularis
Synonyms Phymosia remota, Sphaeralcea remota Sphaeralcea bakeri
Name authority Greene: Leafl. Bot. Obs. Crit. 1: 206. (1906) (Jepson) Wiggins: Contr. Dudley Herb. 1: 228. (1936)
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