Sphaeralcea parvifolia |
Sphaeralcea digitata |
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small-leaf globemallow, smallflower globemallow |
juniper globemallow, palmate globemallow, slippery globemallow |
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Habit | Plants perennial. | Plants perennial. |
Stems | erect, green or gray-green, 1.5–4(–10) dm, white- to yellow-canescent. |
decumbent to erect, green to gray-green, (1–)3–4(–5.5) dm, sparsely pubescent. |
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. |
blades green to gray-green, wide-triangular, 3-lobed or pedately divided, (0.5–)1.5–2.5(–4) cm, not rugose, base cuneate, margins entire, surfaces stellate-pubescent. |
Inflorescences | paniculate, crowded, flowers clustered with distinct internodes between clusters, tip not leafy; involucellar bractlets usually green to tan, sometimes red-purple. |
racemose, flowers solitary or proximal nodes 2- or 3-flowered, tip ± leafless; involucellar bractlets green to tan. |
Flowers | sepals 6–9 mm, tip not forming distinct beak in bud; petals red-orange, 8–14 mm; anthers yellow. |
sepals 3.5–8 mm; petals red-orange, 8–14 mm; anthers purple. |
Seeds | 1 per mericarp, gray or black, ± pubescent. |
1(or 2) per mericarp, brown or black, glabrous or pubescent. |
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. |
cylindric to widely conic; mericarps 9–13, 3–5 × 2–2.5 mm, thickish, chartaceous, nonreticulate dehiscent part 50–60% of height, tip muticous to short-cuspidate, indehiscent part not wider than dehiscent part, sides finely, not highly reticulate. |
2n | = 10, 20. |
= 10. |
Sphaeralcea parvifolia |
Sphaeralcea digitata |
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Phenology | Flowering summer. | Flowering spring–summer. |
Habitat | Dry slopes | Diverse substrates including gypsum, desert scrub |
Elevation | 1500–2100 m (4900–6900 ft) | 1200–2200 m (3900–7200 ft) |
Distribution |
AZ; CA; CO; NM; NV; UT
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AZ; NM; TX; UT; Mexico (Chihuahua, Sonora)
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Source | FNA vol. 6, p. 367. | FNA vol. 6, p. 363. |
Parent taxa | Malvaceae > subfam. Malvoideae > Sphaeralcea | Malvaceae > subfam. Malvoideae > Sphaeralcea |
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Synonyms | S. arizonica, S. marginata | Malvastrum digitatum, S. digitata var. angustiloba, S. digitata subsp. tenuipes, S. digitata var. tenuipes, S. pedata var. angustiloba, S. tenuipes |
Name authority | A. Nelson: Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 17: 94. (1904) | (Greene) Rydberg: Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 40: 58. (1913) |
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