Sphaeralcea coccinea

Sphaeralcea coccinea

taxobox
name = Scarlet Globemallow


regnum = Plantae
unranked_divisio = Angiosperms
unranked_classis = Eudicots
unranked_ordo = Rosids
ordo = Malvales
familia = Malvaceae
subfamilia = Malvoideae
genus = "Sphaeralcea"
species = "S. coccinea "
binomial = "Sphaeralcea coccinea "|

"Sphaeralcea coccinea" (Scarlet Globemallow) 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 Octobercite book | author=Theodore F. Niehaus, Charles L. Ripper, and Virginia Savage | title=A Field Guide to Southwestern and Texas Wildflowers | publisher=Houghton Mifflin Company | year=1984 | id=ISBN 0-395-36640-2] . This species is native to grasslands and prairies of the Great Plains and western regions of northern North America.

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