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Desert Mallow

Sphaeralcea ambigua

Photo by CynthiaMHori
Published on Project Noah
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Description:

Desert Mallow is a two foot perennial with many one inch orange flowers on a two to three foot spike with gray almost fuzzy foliage. Desert Hollyhock is another name for the flower spikes that can occur most of the year here. Desert Mallow needs sun and good air flow. It grows throughout the deserts from Baja Calif. to Utah.

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