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Emory's globemallow

Habit Plants perennial.
Stems

erect, gray to gray-green, to 21 dm, glabrous or coarse-canescent.

Leaf

blades green to gray-green, ovate-triangular to lanceolate, 3-lobed, 2.5–5.5 cm, not rugose, base cordate to truncate, margins crenate to serrate, surfaces stellate-pubescent.

Inflorescences

paniculate, proximally open, distally crowded, flowers clustered, tip not leafy;

involucellar bractlets green to tan, rarely red.

Flowers

sepals 6–8 mm;

petals red-orange, pink, or lavender, 10–12 mm;

anthers yellow.

Seeds

1 or 2 per mericarp, brown or black, pubescent.

Schizocarps

truncate-conic;

mericarps 10–16, 4.5–5 × 2.5 mm, chartaceous, nonreticulate dehiscent part 60% of height, tip acute, indehiscent part not wider than dehiscent part.

2n

= 20, 30, 50.

Sphaeralcea emoryi

Phenology Flowering spring–summer.
Habitat Roadsides, disturbed areas
Elevation (?20–)200–1200 m ((?100–)700–3900 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
AZ; CA; NV; Mexico (Baja California, Chihuahua, Sinaloa, Sonora)
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Discussion

Sphaeralcea emoryi may intergrade with S. angustifolia and S. laxa.

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

Source FNA vol. 6, p. 363.
Parent taxa Malvaceae > subfam. Malvoideae > Sphaeralcea
Sibling taxa
S. ambigua, S. angustifolia, S. caespitosa, S. coccinea, S. coulteri, S. digitata, S. fendleri, S. fumariensis, S. gierischii, S. grossulariifolia, S. hastulata, S. incana, S. laxa, S. leptophylla, S. lindheimeri, S. moorei, S. munroana, S. orcuttii, S. parvifolia, S. pedatifida, S. polychroma, S. procera, S. psoraloides, S. rusbyi, S. wrightii
Synonyms S. arida, S. emoryi var. arida, S. emoryi var. variabilis, S. fendleri var. californica, S. fendleri var. variablis, S. variablis
Name authority Torrey ex A. Gray: Mem. Amer. Acad. Arts, n. s. 4: 23. (1849)
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