Iliamna remota |
Iliamna longisepala |
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Kankakee globe-mallow, Kankakee mallow |
long-sepal globemallow, long-sepal wild hollyhock |
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Stems | 1–2.5 m; herbage densely to sparsely stellate-hairy. |
1–2 m, paniculately branched; herbage sparsely hispid, hairs simple, forked, and 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 5- or 7-lobed, 5–10 cm wide, lobes lanceolate to triangular, base truncate to cordate, margins with coarse rounded to pointed teeth. |
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 forming open panicles; involucellar bractlets linear to linear-lanceolate, 5–10 × 1 mm, 1/3–1/2 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 15–20 mm, lobes lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, 10–15 mm, longer than wide, exceeding tube, hirsute with few-rayed hairs 1–2 mm; petals deep rose-purple, 1.5–2.5 cm. |
Seeds | 2 or 3(or 4), dark brown, 3 mm, densely hairy. |
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Schizocarps | 15 mm diam.; mericarps 15, 10 mm. |
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2n | = 66. |
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Iliamna remota |
Iliamna longisepala |
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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 | Gravelly streamsides and open hillsides, sage brush shrub-steppe to lower Pinus ponderosa zones |
Elevation | 100–200 m (300–700 ft) | 100–1500 m (300–4900 ft) |
Distribution |
IL; IN; VA
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WA
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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 longisepala is distinctive in its long calyx and calyx lobes. The species is rare and limited to the eastern side of the Wenatchee Mountains in the arid transition zones over a total distance of about 120 kilometers in Chelan, Douglas, and Kittitas counties. (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 |
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Synonyms | Phymosia remota, Sphaeralcea remota | Sphaeralcea longisepala, Phymosia longisepala |
Name authority | Greene: Leafl. Bot. Obs. Crit. 1: 206. (1906) | (Torrey) Wiggins: Contr. Dudley Herb. 1: 227. (1936) |
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