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Definition of Sphaeralcea remota
1. Noun. A rare mallow found only in Illinois resembling the common hollyhock and having pale rose-mauve flowers; sometimes placed in genus Sphaeralcea.
Generic synonyms: Mallow
Group relationships: Genus Iliamna, Iliamna
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sphaeralcea Remota
Literary usage of Sphaeralcea remota
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord. Britton, Hon. Addison. Brown (1913)
"Sphaeralcea remota Fernald, Rhodora io: 52. 1908. Perennial, erect, branched,
2°-6° high, finely stellate-pubescent and scabrous. Leaves nearly orbicular in ..."
2. Rhodora by New England Botanical Club (1908)
"SPHAERALCEA remota (Greene), n. comb. Iliamna remota Greene, Leafl., i. 206 (1906).
Sphaeralcea acerifolia Gray, Syn. FI. i. 317, as to Illinois plant, ..."