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Scaly Globemallow

(Sphaeralcea leptophylla)

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Description

Plants perennial. Stems ascending, white to silvery, 1-4(-6) dm, silvery stellate-lepidote. Leaf blades white to silvery, linear to triangular, mostly unlobed, proximalmost blades 3-parted, rarely with nonfiliform lobes, 1-3.5 cm, not rugose, base truncate to cuneate, margins entire, surfaces silvery stellate-lepidote. Inflorescences racemose, lax, open, 3-12-flowered, tip not leafy; involucellar bractlets silvery-lepidote. Flowers: sepals 4.5-5.5(-7) mm; petals red-orange, 8-15 mm; anthers yellow. Schizocarps flattened-spheric to conic; mericarps 7-9, 2.5-3.5 - 2-3 mm, thick-coriaceous, nonreticulate dehiscent part 20-40% of height, tip muticous-mucronulate, indehiscent part usually wider than dehiscent part, sides coarsely reticulate. Seeds 1 per mericarp, brown, usually glabrous. 2n = 20.Flowering spring-summer. Dry rocky areas; 1500-1800 m; Ariz., Colo., Nev., N.Mex., Tex., Utah; Mexico (Chihuahua, Sonora).

Taxonomic tree:

Domain:
Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order:Malvales
Family:Malvaceae
Genus:Sphaeralcea
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