Sphaeralcea angustifolia

(Cavanilles) G. Don

Gen. Hist. 1: 465. 1831.

Common names: Copper or narrow-leaved globemallow
Illustrated
Basionym: Malva angustifolia Cavanilles Diss. 2: 64, plate 20, fig. 3. 1786
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 6. Treatment on page 360. Mentioned on page 358, 363.

Plants perennial. Stems erect, green to gray-green, (3–) 6–20 dm, grayish stellate-hairy. Leaf-blades green to gray-green, linear to linearlanceolate or lanceolate to broadly trullate, unlobed to hastately lobed to angulate, if lobed, center lobe elongate, not deeply dissected, (1.5–) 3.5–10 (–15) cm, not rugose, base cuneate, margins finely dentate to crenate, surfaces stellate-pubescent. Inflorescences paniculate, crowded, flowers clustered, tip usually leafy with distinct mature subtending leaves throughout; involucellar bractlets green to tan. Flowers: sepals 5–9 mm; petals mauve, lavender, red, red-orange, pink, or white, 8–15 mm; anthers yellow or purple. Schizocarps ovoid or truncate-conic; mericarps 9–15, 3.5–7 × 1.5–2 mm, chartaceous, nonreticulate dehiscent part 65–85% of height, muticous to cuspidate, indehiscent part not wider than dehiscent part. Seeds 2 per mericarp, brown to black, pubescent.

Distribution

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Ariz., Calif., Colo., Kans., N.Mex., Nebr., Nev., Okla., Tex., Utah, Mexico

Discussion

Varieties 2 (2 in the flora).

Selected References

None.

Key

1 Leaf blades linear-lanceolate to lanceolate, with or without hastate to angulate lobes. Sphaeralcea angustifolia var. angustifolia
1 Leaf blades broadly linear to broadly trullate, with broad lobes. Sphaeralcea angustifolia var. oblongifolia

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... more about "Sphaeralcea angustifolia"
purple +  and yellow +
acute;truncate;acute;truncate +
John La Duke +
(Cavanilles) G. Don +
cuneate +
Malva angustifolia +
10 cm100 mm <br />0.1 m <br /> (15 cm150 mm <br />0.15 m <br />) +
green +  and gray-green +
3.5 cm35 mm <br />0.035 m <br /> (10 cm100 mm <br />0.1 m <br />) +
asymmetric +  and symmetric +
ovate +  and triangular trullate or cordate unlobed or pedately dissected +
truncate-spheric +, helmet--shaped +, short-urceolate +, ellipsoid +, truncate-ovoid +, spheric +, truncate-conic +, conic +, hemispheric +, flattened-spheric-conic +, flattened-spheric +, ovoid +, cylindric +  and inflated +
indehiscent +  and loculicidal +
elongate +, lobed +, lanceolate +  and broadly trullate unlobed +
Copper or narrow-leaved globemallow +
Ariz. +, Calif. +, Colo. +, Kans. +, N.Mex. +, Nebr. +, Nev. +, Okla. +, Tex. +, Utah +  and Mexico +
sparse;copious +
thread-like +
pistillate +  and staminate +
in axillary cymose racemes +  and fascicled +
unisexual +  and bisexual +
crowded +  and paniculate +
axillary +  and terminal +
tough-fibrous +
connate +  and distinct +
sessile +  and petiolate +
distichous +  and alternate +
entire +  and serrate +
finely dentate;crenate +
2-celled +  and 1-celled +
tan +  and brown +
0.35 cm3.5 mm <br />0.0035 m <br /> (0.7 cm7 mm <br />0.007 m <br />) +
wedge--shaped +
0.15 cm1.5 mm <br />0.0015 m <br /> (0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br />) +
3-40-carpellate +
(1-)2-many +
dehiscent +  and indehiscent +
muticous;cuspidate +
white;pink;white;pink;red-orange;red;lavender;mauve +
adnate +  and distinct +
0.8 cm8 mm <br />0.008 m <br /> (1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br />) +
truncate-conic +  and ovoid +
brown +  and black +
reniform +
persistent +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (0.9 cm9 mm <br />0.009 m <br />) +
Illustrated +
sessile +  and subsessile +
grayish +, green +  and gray-green +
stellate-hairy +
filiform +, linear +  and capitate +
1-2 times number of carpels +
deciduous +  and persistent +
unbranched +  and branched +
stellate-pubescent +
Mallow +
Sphaeralcea angustifolia +
Sphaeralcea +
species +
monoecious +, dioecious +  and hermaphroditic +