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small-leaf globemallow, smallflower globemallow

hot springs globemallow

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

Phenology Flowering summer. Flowering summer.
Habitat Dry slopes Desert lowlands
Elevation 1500–2100 m (4900–6900 ft) 1900 m (6200 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
AZ; CA; CO; NM; NV; UT
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AZ; NM; TX; Mexico (Chihuahua)
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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.)

Source FNA vol. 6, p. 367. FNA vol. 6, p. 368.
Parent taxa Malvaceae > subfam. Malvoideae > Sphaeralcea Malvaceae > subfam. Malvoideae > Sphaeralcea
Sibling taxa
S. ambigua, S. angustifolia, S. caespitosa, S. coccinea, S. coulteri, S. digitata, S. emoryi, S. fendleri, S. fumariensis, S. gierischii, S. grossulariifolia, S. hastulata, S. incana, S. laxa, S. leptophylla, S. lindheimeri, S. moorei, S. munroana, S. orcuttii, S. pedatifida, S. polychroma, S. procera, S. psoraloides, S. rusbyi, S. wrightii
S. ambigua, S. angustifolia, S. caespitosa, S. coccinea, S. coulteri, S. digitata, S. emoryi, S. fendleri, S. fumariensis, S. gierischii, S. grossulariifolia, S. hastulata, S. incana, S. laxa, S. leptophylla, S. lindheimeri, S. moorei, S. munroana, S. orcuttii, S. parvifolia, S. pedatifida, S. procera, S. psoraloides, S. rusbyi, S. wrightii
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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