Sphaeralcea parvifolia |
Sphaeralcea lindheimeri |
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small-leaf globemallow, smallflower globemallow |
woolly 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, whitish, 2–7 dm, soft-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 abaxially white to silvery, adaxially green, deltate-ovate, unlobed or 3-lobed, 4 cm, not rugose, base cordate to truncate, margins broadly 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. |
racemose, crowded, few-flowered, tip not leafy; involucellar bractlets green to purple. |
Flowers | sepals 6–9 mm, tip not forming distinct beak in bud; petals red-orange, 8–14 mm; anthers yellow. |
sepals 8–15 mm; petals red to red-pink, 15–25 mm; anthers yellow. |
Seeds | 1 per mericarp, gray or black, ± pubescent. |
2 or 3 per mericarp, brown to black, slightly 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. |
hemispheric; mericarps 18, 4 mm, chartaceous, nonreticulate dehiscent part 60–70% of height, tip acute, indehiscent part not wider than dehiscent part. |
2n | = 10, 20. |
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Sphaeralcea parvifolia |
Sphaeralcea lindheimeri |
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Phenology | Flowering summer. | Flowering fall–spring. |
Habitat | Dry slopes | Sandy soil, open thickets or roadsides |
Elevation | 1500–2100 m (4900–6900 ft) | 0–300 m (0–1000 ft) |
Distribution |
AZ; CA; CO; NM; NV; UT
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TX |
Discussion | Sphaeralcea lindheimeri has unusually long and soft hairs and is found usually near the coast. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 6, p. 367. | FNA vol. 6, p. 366. |
Parent taxa | Malvaceae > subfam. Malvoideae > Sphaeralcea | Malvaceae > subfam. Malvoideae > Sphaeralcea |
Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | S. arizonica, S. marginata | |
Name authority | A. Nelson: Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 17: 94. (1904) | A. Gray: Boston J. Nat. Hist. 6: 162. (1850) |
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