A deciduous perennial subshrub that blooms all year and found everywhere. 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.

Saguaro National Park East
Location: Desert Ecology Trail. (Widespread around Tucson valley and mountains.)
3/21/15

Notes: Soldier Trailhead at Catalina Highway 3/2/17.
Central reproductive parts appear darker overall than Sphaeralcea ambigua (Fred Heath)

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