Sphaeralcea parvifolia |
Sphaeralcea grossulariifolia |
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small-leaf globemallow, smallflower globemallow |
currant-leaf globemallow, gooseberry-leaf 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. |
erect, green or purple, (2–)6–10 dm, white-canescent or glabrate. |
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 or yellow-green, broadly triangular, 3-lobed or pedately divided, tips rounded or acute, 1.7–3.5(–9) cm, not rugose, base cordate to truncate, margins dentate or crenate, 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. |
paniculate, crowded, flowers solitary or clustered, tip not leafy; 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 5–8 mm; petals red-orange, 8–15 mm; anthers yellow. |
Seeds | 1 per mericarp, gray or black, ± pubescent. |
1(or 2) per mericarp, gray 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. |
truncate-conic to spheric; mericarps 10–12, 2.5–3.5 × 2–2.5 mm, chartaceous, reticulate dehiscent part 60% of height, tip rounded-acute, indehiscent part not wider than dehiscent part. |
2n | = 10, 20. |
= 20. |
Sphaeralcea parvifolia |
Sphaeralcea grossulariifolia |
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Phenology | Flowering summer. | Flowering spring–summer. |
Habitat | Dry slopes | Dry, volcanic, rocky or sandy soil |
Elevation | 1500–2100 m (4900–6900 ft) | 100–2000 m (300–6600 ft) |
Distribution |
AZ; CA; CO; NM; NV; UT
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AZ; ID; NM; NV; OR; UT; WA
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Discussion | Sphaeralcea grossulariifolia is variable and may include S. fumariensis, S. gierischii, and S. moorei. Material of the latter taxa is limited and although select specimens can be attributed to each, the full morphological range of S. grossulariifolia can readily include these other taxa. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 6, p. 367. | FNA vol. 6, p. 365. |
Parent taxa | Malvaceae > subfam. Malvoideae > Sphaeralcea | Malvaceae > subfam. Malvoideae > Sphaeralcea |
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Synonyms | S. arizonica, S. marginata | Sida grossulariifolia, Malvastrum coccineum var. grossulariifolium, M. grossulariifolium, S. grossulariifolia subsp. pedata, S. grossulariifolia var. pedata, S. pedata |
Name authority | A. Nelson: Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 17: 94. (1904) | (Hooker & Arnott) Rydberg: Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 40: 58. (1913) |
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