Flora of North America species comparison

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Sphaeralcea munroana

Munro's desert-mallow, Munro's globemallow, munroe's globe-mallow, orange globe mallow, white-stem globe-mallow
Habit Plants perennial.
Stems

erect, green to gray-green, 2.5–9 dm, gray-green canescent.
Leaf

blades green to gray-green, triangular, unlobed or weakly 5-lobed, to 4.5 cm, not rugose, base cuneate to truncate, margins coarsely toothed, surfaces stellate-pubescent.
Inflorescences

narrowly paniculate, crowded, few–many-flowered, flowers in clusters, tip not leafy;

involucellar bractlets green to tan.
Flowers

sepals 4–9 mm, tips forming weak beak in bud;

petals red-orange, 11–14 mm;

anthers yellow.
Seeds

1 per mericarp, brown, slightly hairy.
Schizocarps

spheric;

mericarps 12, 3.5–4 × 2.5–3 mm, chartaceous, nonreticulate dehiscent part 55% of height, tip acute, with reflexed apical cusp, indehiscent part not wider than dehiscent part.

Sphaeralcea munroana
Phenology Flowering spring–summer.
Habitat Xeric plains and slopes
Elevation 100–2300 m (300–7500 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
CA; ID; MT; NV; OR; UT; WA; WY; BC
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Discussion

Sphaeralcea munroana and S. parvifolia are difficult to distinguish and may be conspecific. Sphaeralcea parvifolia is more southern and smaller overall; S. munroana is more northern and more robust.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 6, p. 367.
Parent taxa Malvaceae > subfam. Malvoideae > Sphaeralcea
Sibling taxa
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. orcuttii, S. parvifolia, S. pedatifida, S. polychroma, S. procera, S. psoraloides, S. rusbyi, S. wrightii
Synonyms Malva munroana, M. creeana, Malvastrum munroanum, Malveopsis munroana, Nuttallia munroana, S. munroana subsp. subrhomboidea, S. munroana var. subrhomboidea, S. subrhomboidea
Name authority (Douglas ex Lindley) Spach: Hist. Nat. Vég. 14: 403. (1847)
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