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smaller or subequal, distal 2 blue (occasionally lilac, lavender, yellow, peach, apricot, or white), clawed; stamens (5–) 6, proximal 3 fertile, medial different

Common names: Apricot mallow Treatment appears in FNA Volume 6. Treatment on page 359. Mentioned on page 358. Plants perennial. Stems erect, yellow-green or

3-lobed; stems yellow- to yellow-green canescent or gray- to white-canescent; anthers yellow, gray, or purple; petals red-orange, apricot, lavender, pink

usually 1–6(–17) mm. > 13 13 Petals pale yellow or straw yellow to medium yellow or almost white (rarely bright yellow) and often red-lineolate, 1.5–4.5 mm

crescent in age, yellow to redbrown, to 4 mm. Flowers: inner tepals pale to bright-yellow throughout, 20–30 mm diam.; filaments yellow to orange; anthers

entire or erose, axils naked, spineless; stigma lobes 4–13, white to yellow or orange-yellow (rarely pinkish), 0.5–8 mm. Fruits indehiscent, green or red, spheric

(2–) 5, terminal, proximally connate; ovules 2. Fruits pomes, soft apricot-yellow [yellow to reddish or blackish], ellipsoid to subglobose, [10–] 20–30 mm

connate, forming cup; paired petals apricot or peach-colored, proximal petal white, minute; staminodes 3; antherodes yellow, cruciform. Capsules 3-locular,

tips sometimes paler or yellow. Glochids in adaxial crescent at margin of areole, in tuft or encircling areole margin, white to yellow to brown, or redbrown

Leaf-blades wrinkled, not markedly rugose. Flowers: petals apricot or red-orange; anthers yellow. 2n = 10. Phenology: Flowering spring–summer. Habitat: Dry

armeniaca Linnaeus Sp. Pl. 1: 474. 1753. Joseph R. Rohrer Common names: Apricot Introduced Synonyms: Armeniaca vulgaris Lamarck Treatment appears in FNA

5–20 mm. Flowers: calyx 4–7 × 4–7 mm; petals connate 4.5–8 mm, red to apricot-yellow, 9–15 × 1.5–2 mm, apex obtuse to sharply acute, tips outcurved; pistils

or recurved only at tips, pale dull creamy yellow or pale greenish tan to pale yellow-orange or pale apricot, usually with well-defined darker midstripes

mm; filaments and anthers yellow; style whitish; stigma lobes greenish yellow to yellow. Fruits red-purple, green-yellow interior, spheric-obovoid to pyriform

Flowers: inner tepals yellow throughout, aging apricot to orange, obovate-apiculate, 25–38 mm; filaments whitish; anthers yellow; style green; stigma lobes

normally green sepals and showy, often more or less clawed, usually white, yellow, or pink, less commonly red or green, petals. The flowers in some genera

usually shorter than or equal to petals, sometimes longer. Drupes 1, greenish yellow to yellowish or orange to bright or dark red, reddish-brown, or dark purple