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Kankakee globe-mallow, Kankakee mallow

broad-bract globemallow, California globe mallow, California wild hollyhock

Stems

1–2.5 m;

herbage densely to sparsely stellate-hairy.

1–2 m;

herbage harshly and moderately 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 deeply (3-), 5-, or 7-lobed, 8–20 cm wide, lobes broadest at middle, base truncate to cordate, margins serrate or irregularly dentate.

Inflorescences

clusters forming interrupted racemes distally;

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

cymes, forming interrupted spikes or racemes;

involucellar bractlets broadly elliptic-lanceolate to ovate, 10–14 × 4–6 mm, equaling or exceeding 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 8–10 mm, lobes triangular-ovate, 5–8 × 4–5 mm, slightly longer than broad, slightly longer than tube;

petals rose-purple, 2–3 cm.

Seeds

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

2 or 3, dark brown, 2 mm, puberulent.

Schizocarps

15 mm diam.;

mericarps 15, 10 mm.

10–15 mm diam.;

mericarps 10–14, 6–8 mm.

2n

= 66.

Iliamna remota

Iliamna latibracteata

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 Conifer forests, streamsides, sometimes shaded
Elevation 100–200 m (300–700 ft) 500–2000 m (1600–6600 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 latibracteata is distinctive in having large involucral bracts, which more or less envelop the calyx and equal or surpass it in length. It occurs in the Klamath and Siskiyou mountains of Del Norte and Humboldt counties in California, north to Coos, Curry, Douglas, Jackson, and Josephine counties in Oregon, with an eastern outlying station reported from Mount Shasta, California.

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

Source FNA vol. 6, p. 270. FNA vol. 6, p. 271.
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. crandallii, I. grandiflora, I. longisepala, I. remota, I. rivularis
Synonyms Phymosia remota, Sphaeralcea remota Sphaeralcea rivularis var. cismontana
Name authority Greene: Leafl. Bot. Obs. Crit. 1: 206. (1906) Wiggins: Contr. Dudley Herb. 1: 225, plate 20. (1936)
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