Sphaeralcea parvifolia |
Sphaeralcea polychroma |
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small-leaf globemallow, smallflower globemallow |
hot springs 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, white or yellow, to 10–20 dm, rubbery, densely soft stellate-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 white or yellow, deltate to lanceolate, subhastate to 3-lobed, 4–7 cm, secondary lobes to 2.2 cm, not rugose, base cuneate, margins crenate to dentate, surfaces green- to white-canescent. |
Inflorescences | paniculate, crowded, flowers clustered with distinct internodes between clusters, tip not leafy; involucellar bractlets usually green to tan, sometimes red-purple. |
paniculate, open, many-flowered, interrupted, tip 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 6–7 mm; petals white, pink, lavender, purple, red-orange, or red, 10–13 mm; anthers yellow. |
Seeds | 1 per mericarp, gray or black, ± pubescent. |
1 or 2 per mericarp, gray, 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. |
short-urceolate; mericarps 12–14, (3.5–)4–5.5 × 2–3 mm, chartaceous, nonreticulate dehiscent part 60% of height, with usually reflexed cusps to 2 mm, indehiscent part not wider than dehiscent part. |
2n | = 10, 20. |
=20. |
Sphaeralcea parvifolia |
Sphaeralcea polychroma |
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Phenology | Flowering summer. | Flowering summer. |
Habitat | Dry slopes | Desert lowlands |
Elevation | 1500–2100 m (4900–6900 ft) | 1900 m (6200 ft) |
Distribution |
AZ; CA; CO; NM; NV; UT
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AZ; NM; TX; Mexico (Chihuahua) |
Discussion | Sphaeralcea polychroma is frequent in central New Mexico and western Texas. It is closely related to S. procera. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 6, p. 367. | FNA vol. 6, p. 368. |
Parent taxa | Malvaceae > subfam. Malvoideae > Sphaeralcea | Malvaceae > subfam. Malvoideae > Sphaeralcea |
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Synonyms | S. arizonica, S. marginata | |
Name authority | A. Nelson: Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 17: 94. (1904) | La Duke: SouthW. Naturalist 30: 433, fig. 1. (1985) |
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