Horsfordia alata |
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big feltplant, pink velvet-mallow |
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Habit | Shrubs, 1–2.5(–4) m, hairs dense, stellate, grayish yellow, rough. |
Leaves | often folded, to 68 mm, petiolate to 8 cm to sessile distally; stipules 2–5 mm; blade ovate to triangular, 1–11.5 cm, base cordate, margins crenate or dentate to denticulate, apex acuminate. |
Inflorescences | solitary flowers, rarely in groups of 3–5. |
Flowers | calyx campanulate, 3–10 mm; petals rose, pink, or pale lavender, 12–21 mm. |
Seeds | 1 per mericarp, brown to blackish, 1.9 mm, minutely scabridulous. |
Schizocarps | 8–12 mm diam.; mericarps 9 or 10, 6–10 mm, sparsely stellate-hairy, lower cell reticulate, upper cell with 2 abortive ovules (rarely developing), wings lanceolate. |
2n | = 30. |
Horsfordia alata |
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Phenology | Flowering Sep–Apr. |
Habitat | Disturbed and undisturbed sites, deserts |
Elevation | 0–600 m (0–2000 ft) |
Distribution |
AZ; CA; Mexico (Baja California, Baja California Sur, Sonora)
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Source | FNA vol. 6, p. 268. |
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Synonyms | Sida alata, H. palmeri |
Name authority | (S. Watson) A. Gray: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 22: 297. (1887) |
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