Sphaeralcea wrightii |
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Wright's globemallow |
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Habit | Plants perennial. |
Stems | ascending to erect, gray-green, 2–5(–7.5) dm, canescent to tomentose. |
Leaf | blades gray-green, widely ovate or triangular to orbiculate, all but proximalmost deeply pedately divided, (1–)2–4 cm, not rugose, base truncate to cordate, margins entire, surfaces stellate-pubescent. |
Inflorescences | racemose or paniculate, narrow, open, few–many-flowered, tip not leafy; involucellar bractlets green to tan. |
Flowers | sepals 6–7 mm, not forming beak; petals lavender, red-orange, or pink, 10–13.5(–18) mm; anthers yellow or purple. |
Seeds | 2 per mericarp, black, pubescent. |
Schizocarps | hemispheric to truncate-conic; mericarps 12–15, 4–7 × 2.5–3 mm, chartaceous, nonreticulate dehiscent part 55–65% of height, with prominent ventral beak, tip acutish, cuspidate, indehiscent part not wider than dehiscent part, sides prominently reticulate. |
2n | = 20. |
Sphaeralcea wrightii |
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Phenology | Flowering spring. |
Habitat | Dry rocky areas |
Elevation | 1200 m (3900 ft) |
Distribution |
AZ; NM; TX; Mexico (Chihuahua)
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Source | FNA vol. 6, p. 369. |
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Name authority | A. Gray: Smithsonian Contr. Knowl. 5(6): 21. (1853) |
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