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Sphaeralcea laxa
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.
Dry, rocky hillside above San Xavier del Bac Mission, Az.
Spotted on Oct 18, 2015
Submitted on Jan 16, 2016
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