Species: Sphaeralcea munroana
Encyclopedia of Puget Sound
White-stemmed Globe-mallow is a perennial herb with several stems that are 2-8 dm high and arising from a thick, branched taproot. The alternate, petiolate leaves have spade-shaped blades that are 2-6 cm long with shallowly lobed and coarsely toothed margins. The foliage is covered with short, grayish hairs. 1 to a few short-stalked flowers are borne in clusters in a terminal, leafy, spike-like inflorescence. Each of the orange to reddish flowers has a 5-lobed, hairy calyx and 5 separate, oblong, shallowly bilobed petals that are 1-2 cm long. Numerous stamens are united into a tube surrounding the style. The numerous stigmas are globose. The fruit is a flattened-globose capsule with many sections that are ca. 3 mm long; it has the appearance of a peeled orange.
Source: Encyclopedia of Life
Classification
Dicotyledoneae
Malvales
Malvaceae
Sphaeralcea
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Classification
Ecology and Life History
White-stemmed Globe-mallow is a perennial herb with several stems that are 2-8 dm high and arising from a thick, branched taproot. The alternate, petiolate leaves have spade-shaped blades that are 2-6 cm long with shallowly lobed and coarsely toothed margins. The foliage is covered with short, grayish hairs. 1 to a few short-stalked flowers are borne in clusters in a terminal, leafy, spike-like inflorescence. Each of the orange to reddish flowers has a 5-lobed, hairy calyx and 5 separate, oblong, shallowly bilobed petals that are 1-2 cm long. Numerous stamens are united into a tube surrounding the style. The numerous stigmas are globose. The fruit is a flattened-globose capsule with many sections that are ca. 3 mm long; it has the appearance of a peeled orange.
Source: Encyclopedia of Life