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Emory's globemallow

Carrizo Creek globemallow, Carrizo mallow

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

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
from FNA
AZ; CA; NV; Mexico (Baja California, Chihuahua, Sinaloa, Sonora)
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from FNA
AZ; CA; Mexico (Baja California, Baja California Sur, 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.)

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
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
S. ambigua, S. angustifolia, S. caespitosa, S. coccinea, S. coulteri, S. digitata, S. emoryi, S. fendleri, S. fumariensis, S. gierischii, S. grossulariifolia, S. hastulata, S. incana, S. laxa, S. leptophylla, S. lindheimeri, S. moorei, S. munroana, 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) Rose: Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 1: 289. (1893)
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