Sphaeralcea coccinea
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| Sphaeralcea coccinea subsp. var. | Globe mallow, Prairie mallow, Red false mallow | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sphaeralcea coccinea (Scarlet Globemallow) is a perennial plant growing 10–30 cm tall from spreading rhizomes with a low habit. They have grayish stems with dense, star-shaped hairs and alternately arranged leaves. The leaf blades are 2–5 cm long, palmately shaped, and deeply cut, with 3–5 main wedge-shaped segments. The undersides of the leaves have gray hairs. The 2-cm-wide flowers are reddish-orange and saucer-shaped, with 5 notched, broad petals, in small terminal clusters. Plants flower from May to October[1]. This species is native to grasslands and prairies of the Great Plains and western regions of northern North America.
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References
- ↑ Theodore F. Niehaus, Charles L. Ripper, and Virginia Savage (1984). A Field Guide to Southwestern and Texas Wildflowers. Houghton Mifflin Company. ISBN 0-395-36640-2.
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