The
photo above shows a close-up of the inflorescence of gooseberry-leaved globe-mallow
as seen along Whitehorse Road immediately to the north of the Trout Creek Mts
of southeastern OR............June 26, 1999.
Gooseberry-leaved globe-mallow is an attractive perennial wildflower with clusters of spreading to erect, simple to branched stems from 30-70 cm high. The herbage consists of a fairly dense covering of star-shaped hairs, giving plants a grayish or gray-green cast. The leaves are orbicular in outline and deeply parted into 3-5 thin lobes which are again deeply cleft (See photo below.). The blades range from 2-8 cm long and are about as wide. The petioles of the lower leaves are 2-5 cm long with those of the upper leaves shorter.
The flowers are found in short, dense terminal spikes, or the lower flowers may be axillary. The bell-shaped calyx is fairly densely covered with star-shaped hairs (See photo at right.). The calyx ranges from 5-6 mm long with broadly lanceolate lobes. The petals range from brick-red to apricot and are about 1.5-2 cm long.
Gooseberry-leaved globe-mallow may be found in dry, open and exposed habitats from the desert to the lower elevations of the mountains.
Gooseberry-leaved globe-mallow may be found from south-central Washington east to central Idaho and south to Utah and Nevada.
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