Sphaeralcea leptophylla |
Sphaeralcea coccinea |
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scaly globemallow |
common globemallow, scarlet globe-mallow |
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Habit | Plants perennial. | Plants perennial, rhizomatous. | ||||
Stems | ascending, white to silvery, 1–4(–6) dm, silvery stellate-lepidote. |
3–6, ascending or decumbent, light green to grayish, 1–3(–5) dm, stellate- green. |
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Leaf | blades white to silvery, linear to triangular, mostly unlobed, proximalmost blades 3-parted, rarely with nonfiliform lobes, 1–3.5 cm, not rugose, base truncate to cuneate, margins entire, surfaces silvery stellate-lepidote. |
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Inflorescences | racemose, lax, open, 3–12-flowered, tip not leafy; involucellar bractlets silvery-lepidote. |
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Flowers | sepals 4.5–5.5(–7) mm; petals red-orange, 8–15 mm; anthers yellow. |
sepals 5–10 mm; petals red-orange, 5–20 mm; anthers yellow. |
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Seeds | 1 per mericarp, brown, usually glabrous. |
1 per mericarp, gray to black, ± glabrous. |
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Schizocarps | flattened-spheric to conic; mericarps 7–9, 2.5–3.5 × 2–3 mm, thick-coriaceous, nonreticulate dehiscent part 20–40% of height, tip muticous-mucronulate, indehiscent part usually wider than dehiscent part, sides coarsely reticulate. |
flattened spheric-conic; mericarps 10–14, 3–3.5 × 2.5–3 mm, thick, coriaceous, nonreticulate dehiscent part 10–35% of height, muticous, indehiscent part usually wider than dehiscent part. |
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2n | = 20. |
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Sphaeralcea leptophylla |
Sphaeralcea coccinea |
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Phenology | Flowering spring–summer. | |||||
Habitat | Dry rocky areas | |||||
Elevation | 1500–1800 m (4900–5900 ft) | |||||
Distribution |
AZ; CO; NM; NV; TX; UT; Mexico (Chihuahua, Sonora)
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AZ; CO; IA; ID; KS; MT; ND; NE; NM; OK; SD; TX; UT; WY; AB; BC; MB; SK; n Mexico
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Discussion | Varieties 2 (2 in the flora). Sphaeralcea coccinea is variable; it is one of the first sphaeralceas to bloom and is commonly found on roadsides. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Key |
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Source | FNA vol. 6, p. 366. | FNA vol. 6, p. 361. | ||||
Parent taxa | Malvaceae > subfam. Malvoideae > Sphaeralcea | Malvaceae > subfam. Malvoideae > Sphaeralcea | ||||
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Synonyms | Malvastrum leptophyllum, Malveopsis leptophylla, S. janeae, S. leptophylla var. janeae | Malva coccinea, Malvastrum coccineum, Sida coccinea | ||||
Name authority | (A. Gray) Rydberg: Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 40: 59. (1913) | (Nuttall) Rydberg: Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 40: 58. (1913) | ||||
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