University of California, Riverside Plant Herbarium (UCR)
UCR0039691
UCR-BPS-41616
UCR-41616
Sphaeralcea laxa Wooton & Standl.
Malvaceae
P.A. Fryxell (1986)
A.C. Sanders
6082
1986-03-03
1986-3-3
B.Pitzer, D.Charlton, Jesse Kniffen, R. Kniffen
United States, California, Riverside, Chuckwalla Mountains, Corn Spring, wash below the spring and wash and rocky slopes to the south
33.62472 -115.32444
5E 2N; T6S R16E sec28
489 meters (1604ft)
Creosote bush scrub on granitic slopes, desert dry wash woodland in granitic sand along the wash, alkaline clay around spring at palm oasis. Larrea, Olneya, Cercidium, Ambrosia dumosa and Hyptis dominant.
Flowering & Fruiting
Fairly common subshrub on rocky slopes; fls. deep salmon.