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    Sphaeralcea coccinea

    Topic: Biology

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    Short description: Species of flowering plant

    Scarlet globemallow
    Globemallow (Sphaeralcea coccinea) (9471470335).jpg
    Scientific classification edit
    Kingdom: Plantae
    Clade: Tracheophytes
    Clade: Angiosperms
    Clade: Eudicots
    Clade: Rosids
    Order: Malvales
    Family: Malvaceae
    Genus: Sphaeralcea
    Species:
    S. coccinea
    Binomial name
    Sphaeralcea coccinea
    (Nutt.) Rydb.[1]
    Synonyms

    Malvastrum coccineum (Nutt.) A. Gray

    Sphaeralcea coccinea, the scarlet globemallow,[1] 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.[2]

    This species is native to grasslands and prairies of the Great Plains and western regions of northern North America. While on the course of his expedition, near the Marias River, Meriwether Lewis collected a specimen of this species.[3]

    References

    1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Sphaeralcea coccinea". Natural Resources Conservation Service PLANTS Database. USDA. https://plants.usda.gov/core/profile?symbol=SPCO. Retrieved 25 November 2015. 
    2. ↑ Theodore F. Niehaus; Charles L. Ripper; Virginia Savage (1984). A Field Guide to Southwestern and Texas Wildflowers. Houghton Mifflin Company. ISBN 0-395-36640-2. https://archive.org/details/fieldguidetosout00nieh. 
    3. ↑ Schiemann, Donald Anthony. Wildflowers of Montana, page 144. Mountain Press Publishing Company, Missoula. 2005.

    External links

    See also Wikidata entry Q3744036.




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