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Wright's globemallow

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

Phenology Flowering spring.
Habitat Dry rocky areas
Elevation 1200 m (3900 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
AZ; NM; TX; Mexico (Chihuahua)
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Source FNA vol. 6, p. 369.
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. psoraloides, S. rusbyi
Name authority A. Gray: Smithsonian Contr. Knowl. 5(6): 21. (1853)
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