Sphaeralcea emoryi var. emoryi

Emory's globemallow

Family: Malvaceae · Type: shrub · Native

Emory's globemallow is a California native shrub found in southern California, southern Peninsular Ranges, southern Mojave Desert, and Sonoran Desert in fields and roadsides at elevations below 600 meters. Flowering from February to July, this plant produces red-orange to lavender flowers 10 to 12 millimeters long with yellow anthers. Growing with erect stems up to 2.1 meters tall and covered in coarse gray hair, it develops a distinctive subshrub form. Its gray-green leaves are ovate-triangular, 25 to 55 millimeters long, with three prominent veins and three distinct lobes, featuring a heart-shaped base and slightly truncate to acute tip. The fruit develops into 10 to 16 segments, each 4.5 to 5 millimeters long, containing one or two brown or black seeds.

Habitat: Fields, roadsides

Bloom period: Feb-Jul

Elevation: < 600 m

Bioregions: SCo, s PR, s DMoj, DSon

California counties: San Bernardino, Imperial, Riverside, Orange, Kern, San Diego, Los Angeles

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.