32 MALLOW ORDER 



10-20 in a circle, beaked, closed or splitting, 1-seeded; flowers solitary or 

 few in a terminal cluster; leaves lobed or divided; perennial. 



1 . Flowers white to pink, 1 in. wide ; no bracts below ; 



sepals none C. alceoides 



2. Flowers rose-purple, 1-3 in. wide; bracts 3 C.involucrata 



Malva Linne 1753 Mallow 

 (Gr. malache, Lat. malva, mallow, from its mucilage) 

 Sepals 5, united, usually with 3 leaf-like bracts just below, petals 5, 

 white to pink or red, anthers at the top of the stamen column, ovary with 

 10-20 cavities, stigmas along the inner side of the styles, fruits or carpels 

 10-20 in a circle, beaked, closed, 1-seeded ; flowers solitary or clustered ; 

 leaves lobed or divided; annual, biennial or perennial. 

 Stems creeping ; leaves rounded, 5-9-lobed ; flowers 



whitish M. rotundifolia 



Malvastrum Gray 1848 Malvastrum 



(Lat. malva, mallow, -astrum, like, from the resemblance) 



PI. 7, fig. 7. 



Sepals 5, united, petals 5, yellow to orange or red, anthers at the top 



of the stamen column, ovary with 5-many cavities, stigmas at the tip of 



the styles, fruits or carpels 5-many in a circle, beaked, closed or splitting; 



flowers solitary or in a spike-like raceme ; leaves entire, toothed or divided ; 



annual or perennial. 



1. Leaves 3-5-divided, gray with star-shaped hairs M. coccineum 



2. Leaves 3-parted, silvery with shield-shaped hairs M. leptophyllum 



Sida Linne 1753 

 (Greek name of a plant) 

 Sepals 5, united, without bracts beneath, petals 5, yellow, anthers at the 

 top of the stamen column, ovary with 5-many cavities, stigmas at the tip 

 of the styles, fruits or carpels 5-many, 1-seeded, mostly closed; flowers 

 solitary or clustered ; leaves toothed or lobed ; annual or perennial. 

 Stem and leaves silvery-scaly ; leaves arrow-shaped 5\ lepidota 



Sidalcea Gray 1848 Sidalcea 



(Gr. sida, and alkea, mallow) 



PL 7, fig. 3. 



Sepals 5, united, without bracts beneath, petals 5, rose, purple or white, 



stamens united in 2 rows, ovary with 5-9 cavities, stigmas along the inner 



