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Caliche Globemallow

Sphaeralcea laxa

Photo by joanbstanley
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Description:

The flowers have 5 fan-shaped, cupped petals and distinctive dark maroon anthers. The leaves are alternate, green, broadly scalloped, stippled with whitish hairs, almost as wide as long, and palmately lobed with 3 main lobes. This plant is smaller, finer, and more delicate-looking than the other globemallows found here.

Habitat:

Dry, rocky hillside above San Xavier del Bac Mission, Az.

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Sphaeralcea laxa

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Flowers of North America
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Sonoran Desert - Plants and Animals
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PublishedJanuary 16, 2016

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