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Kankakee globe-mallow, Kankakee mallow

Crandall's wild hollyhock

Stems

1–2.5 m;

herbage densely to sparsely stellate-hairy.

0.5–0.7 m;

herbage sparingly stellate to glabrate, hairs obscurely stellate.

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 deeply 5- or 7-lobed, 5–10 cm wide, lobes narrowly triangular, central lobe 2–3 times longer than lateral lobes, base cordate to truncate, margins coarsely serrate.

Inflorescences

clusters forming interrupted racemes distally;

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

solitary flowers in distal leaf axils, appearing racemose;

involucellar bractlets linear, 8–10 × 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.

calyx 10–15 mm, lobes lanceolate to lanceolate-ovate, 9–12 mm, longer than wide, longer than tube, apex acuminate;

petals whitish or pinkish, 2–2.5 cm.

Seeds

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

2–4 per mericarp, glabrous.

Schizocarps

15 mm diam.;

mericarps 15, 10 mm.

unknown.

2n

= 66.

Iliamna remota

Iliamna crandallii

Phenology Flowering Jun–Aug. Flowering Jul–Aug.
Habitat Open woods and rocky slopes, riverbanks, shores and gravel bars of rivers, abandoned cultivated fields in sandy clay loam Open forests, stream banks, mountain slopes
Elevation 100–200 m (300–700 ft) 2000–2300 m (6600–7500 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
IL; IN; VA
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from FNA
CO
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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 crandallii was described from near Steamboat Springs, Routt County, and is restricted to that area. It has been reported from Rio Blanco County (according to a specimen at COLO). T. A. Bodo Slotta (2000) stated that she collected fresh material of the species at Buffalo Pass and Fish Creek Falls.

(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. bakeri, I. corei, I. grandiflora, I. latibracteata, I. longisepala, I. remota, I. rivularis
Synonyms Phymosia remota, Sphaeralcea remota Sphaeralcea crandallii, Phymosia crandallii
Name authority Greene: Leafl. Bot. Obs. Crit. 1: 206. (1906) (Rydberg) Wiggins: Contr. Dudley Herb. 1: 228. (1936)
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