Flora of North America species comparison

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Sphaeralcea psoraloides

psoralea globemallow
Habit Plants perennial.
Stems

erect, yellow-green, 1.4–2(–3) dm, stellate-canescent.
Leaf

blades yellow-green, triangular to deltate, usually 3-(or 5-)lobed, lobes unlobed or broadly oblanceolate, 1.3–3.5 cm, not rugose, base cuneate(-truncate), margins entire, surfaces sparsely stellate-canescent.
Inflorescences

racemose, open, flowers usually 1 per node, tip leafy;

involucellar bractlets tan.
Flowers

sepals 4.5–8 mm;

petals red-orange, 10–17 mm;

anthers yellow.
Seeds

1 per mericarp, dark brown to black, glabrous or pubescent.
Schizocarps

flattened-hemispheric;

mericarps 9–13, 2–2.5 × 2 mm, chartaceous, nonreticulate dehiscent part 10–15% of height, tip acute, indehiscent part wider than dehiscent part, sides reticulate.

Sphaeralcea psoraloides
Phenology Flowering spring–summer.
Habitat Clay or gravel soil
Elevation 1200–1900 m (3900–6200 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
UT
[BONAP county map]
Discussion

Sphaeralcea psoraloides resembles S. coccinea but has markedly greenish, simply-lobed leaves; it occurs in Emery, Grand, and Wayne counties.

Of conservation concern.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 6, p. 368.
Parent taxa 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. parvifolia, S. pedatifida, S. polychroma, S. procera, S. rusbyi, S. wrightii
Name authority S. L. Welsh: Great Basin Naturalist 40: 36. (1980)
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