Sphaeralcea emoryi |
Sphaeralcea orcuttii |
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Emory's globemallow |
Carrizo Creek globemallow, Carrizo mallow |
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Habit | Plants perennial. | Plants usually annual, sometimes biennial. |
Stems | erect, gray to gray-green, to 21 dm, glabrous or coarse-canescent. |
erect, yellow, 5–12 dm, stellate-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. |
blades yellow-green to pale green, trullate with straight or rounded appearance or triangular with subhastate lobes, apical lobes distinctly triangular, 2-lobed, 3–5 cm, not rugose, base tapered to truncate, margins entire or wavy, surfaces stellate-canescent. |
Inflorescences | paniculate, proximally open, distally crowded, flowers clustered, tip not leafy; involucellar bractlets green to tan, rarely red. |
paniculate, crowded, many-flowered, flowers clustered, tip not leafy; involucellar bractlets green to tan. |
Flowers | sepals 6–8 mm; petals red-orange, pink, or lavender, 10–12 mm; anthers yellow. |
sepals 4–7 mm; petals red-orange, 10–12 mm; anthers yellow. |
Seeds | 1 or 2 per mericarp, brown or black, pubescent. |
1 per mericarp, brown, glabrous or 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. |
± hemispheric; mericarps 12–17, 2.5–3 × 2–3 mm, chartaceous, nonreticulate dehiscent part 30–40% of height, tip rounded, indehiscent part wider than dehiscent part. |
2n | = 20, 30, 50. |
= 10. |
Sphaeralcea emoryi |
Sphaeralcea orcuttii |
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Phenology | Flowering spring–summer. | Flowering spring. |
Habitat | Roadsides, disturbed areas | Dry, sandy, ± alkaline places |
Elevation | (?20–)200–1200 m ((?100–)700–3900 ft) | ?50–900 m (?200–3000 ft) |
Distribution |
AZ; CA; NV; Mexico (Baja California, Chihuahua, Sinaloa, Sonora)
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AZ; CA; Mexico (Baja California, Baja California Sur, Sonora) |
Discussion | Sphaeralcea emoryi may intergrade with S. angustifolia and S. laxa. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Sphaeralcea orcuttii has distinctive trullate leaf blades and an erect habit. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 6, p. 363. | FNA vol. 6, p. 367. |
Parent taxa | Malvaceae > subfam. Malvoideae > Sphaeralcea | Malvaceae > subfam. Malvoideae > Sphaeralcea |
Sibling taxa | ||
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) | Rose: Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 1: 289. (1893) |
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