Sphaeralcea parvifolia |
Sphaeralcea coccinea |
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small-leaf globemallow, smallflower globemallow |
common globemallow, scarlet globe-mallow |
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Habit | Plants perennial. | Plants perennial, rhizomatous. | ||||
Stems | erect, green or gray-green, 1.5–4(–10) dm, white- to yellow-canescent. |
3–6, ascending or decumbent, light green to grayish, 1–3(–5) dm, stellate- green. |
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Leaf | blades gray to green, ovate, unlobed or weakly 3–5-lobed, 1–5.5 cm, not rugose, base cuneate to cordate, margins entire or crenate to serrate, surfaces stellate-pubescent. |
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Inflorescences | paniculate, crowded, flowers clustered with distinct internodes between clusters, tip not leafy; involucellar bractlets usually green to tan, sometimes red-purple. |
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Flowers | sepals 6–9 mm, tip not forming distinct beak in bud; petals red-orange, 8–14 mm; anthers yellow. |
sepals 5–10 mm; petals red-orange, 5–20 mm; anthers yellow. |
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Seeds | 1 per mericarp, gray or black, ± pubescent. |
1 per mericarp, gray to black, ± glabrous. |
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Schizocarps | ellipsoid; mericarps 12, 3.5–5.5 × 1.5–3 mm, chartaceous, nonreticulate dehiscent part 60–70% of height, with or without apical cusp, indehiscent part not wider than dehiscent part. |
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 | = 10, 20. |
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Sphaeralcea parvifolia |
Sphaeralcea coccinea |
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Phenology | Flowering summer. | |||||
Habitat | Dry slopes | |||||
Elevation | 1500–2100 m (4900–6900 ft) | |||||
Distribution |
AZ; CA; CO; NM; NV; UT
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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. 367. | FNA vol. 6, p. 361. | ||||
Parent taxa | Malvaceae > subfam. Malvoideae > Sphaeralcea | Malvaceae > subfam. Malvoideae > Sphaeralcea | ||||
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Synonyms | S. arizonica, S. marginata | Malva coccinea, Malvastrum coccineum, Sida coccinea | ||||
Name authority | A. Nelson: Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 17: 94. (1904) | (Nuttall) Rydberg: Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 40: 58. (1913) | ||||
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