Sphaeralcea rusbyi
Rusby's globemallow
erect, gray-green to purple, 3–6 dm, sparsely pubescent.
blades light green, sometimes with purple margins, triangular to broadly ovate, pedately divided or 3–5-lobed, 1.5–5 cm, not rugose, base truncate to cordate, margins entire, surfaces sparsely stellate-pubescent.
paniculate, crowded, few-flowered per node, tip ± leafy;
involucellar bractlets red to purple.
sepals sometimes red or purple, 6–15 mm, lobes equaling to 3 times tube length;
petals red-orange, 10–20 mm;
anthers usually red to purple, sometimes yellow.
1 or 2 per mericarp, black-gray, glabrous or pubescent.
truncate-spheric;
mericarps 13, 4.5–6 × 2–2.5 mm, chartaceous, nonreticulate dehiscent part 55–80% of height, tip acute, indehiscent part not wider than dehiscent part.
Sphaeralcea rusbyi
Varieties 2 (2 in the flora).
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
1. Sepals 6–10 mm, lobes deltate; calyx length ± equaling fruit. | var. rusbyi |
1. Sepals 13–15 mm, lobes elongate; calyx length 2 times fruit. | var. eremicola |
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