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Sphaeralcea munroana
Also called Munro's Globe Mallow, Munro's Mallow, Munroe's Desert Mallow, Orange Globe Mallow, White Stem Gobe Mallow, White Stemmed Globe Mallow
Sphaeralcea munroana is a species of flowering plant in the mallow family known by the common names Munro's globemallow, Munro's desert-mallow and orange globe mallow. It is native to the western United States, where it can be found in the Great Basin, the Columbia Plateau and surrounding regions. It grows in shrub-steppe, desert flats, mountain slopes, and prefers moderately sandy or rocky sites. This perennial herb produces erect stems up to about 80 centimetres (31 in) tall from a thick root system. It is woolly and gray-green in color. The alternately arranged leaves have triangular blades up to 6 cm long, usually edged with large lobes and a toothed margin. Flowers occur in clusters on a raceme along upper stems, which are leafless at the top. The flower has five apricot to red-orange petals each just over 1 cm long.
Desert globemallow · Copper globemallow · Scarlet globemallow · Coulter's globemallow · Emory's globemallow · La Luna Globemallow · Gierisch's globemallow · Gooseberryleaf globemallow · Gray globemallow · Caliche globemallow · Smallflower globemallow · Rusby's globemallow
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Sphaeralcea munroana by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
