Apricot globemallow
Sphaeralcea ambigua A.Gray
- light
- Full sun
- water
- —
- tall
- 91 cm
- wide
- 76 cm
Malvaceae
Also called Desert Globemallow, Desert Mallow, Desert globemallow, Globe Mallow
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- PerennialKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Desert or dry shrublandKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- SW. U.S.A. to NW. MexicoKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from Wikipedia, one source
- Height
- 91 cmRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Spread
- 61 cm to 91 cmRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Flowers
- White, orange, pinkRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -23.3 °C (USDA zone 6a)Read from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: water, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (5)
- Spanish
- malva del desierto
- Russian
- Сферальцея сомнительная
- root
- SPAM2, widogoba
- Finnish
- oranssimalvio
- Chinese (China)
- 球葵
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, Public domain
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- 3D model: Sphaeralcea ambigua (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.