Eremalche exilis (A.Gray) Greene

White mallow (en)

Species

Angiosperms > Malvales > Malvaceae > Eremalche

Characteristics

Plants prostrate to decumbent; stems sometimes flushed with purple-maroon, branched or unbranched, 2–40 cm, obscurely stellate-hairy. Leaf blades 3-or 5-cleft or-lobed to ± 1/2 to base, 1–2.5 cm wide, divisions entire or 3-toothed at tip. Inflorescences seldom exceeding leaves, sometimes basal. Pedicels 0.2–1 cm, longer in fruit; involucellar bractlets threadlike to linear, 3.3–5.5(–7) mm. Flowers: calyx 4–5.5(–7) mm, lobes 3–5 × 1.5–2.5 mm; petals white or pale rose-lavender, 4–5.5 mm, equaling calyx. Mericarps 9–13, brownish to blackish, ± wedge-shaped, cushionlike, 1.4–1.8 mm, margins rounded, radially corrugated. 2n = 20, 40.
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A herb that tends to lie along the ground. The stems can have long hairs. The leaves have 3-5 lobes. They are 1-2.5 cm wide.
Life form annual
Growth form herb
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Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.11 - 0.38
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Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

It is a temperate plant.
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Hardiness (USDA) 6-11

Usage

The leaves are boiled and eaten.
Uses animal food food medicinal
Edible leaves
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Images

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Distribution

Eremalche exilis world distribution map, present in Mexico and United States of America

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:93341-2
WFO ID wfo-0000670718
COL ID 6GCJJ
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Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Eremalche exilis Malvastrum exile Malveopsis exilis Sphaeralcea exilis