Sphaeralcea

Accepted species 49 Documented here 32 Family Malvaceae

Accepted species 49 in this genus

Every accepted species in the genus is listed. A name links to its page when we hold at least three commercially licensed photographs of it. Where we do not, the row shows how many we actually found, which is usually none.

SpeciesAuthority Usable photographsPage
Sphaeralcea ambigua A.Gray 1,124 documented
Sphaeralcea coccinea (Nutt.) Rydb. 690 documented
Sphaeralcea angustifolia G.Don 538 documented
Sphaeralcea bonariensis (Cav.) Griseb. 228 documented
Sphaeralcea hastulata A.Gray 223 documented
Sphaeralcea parvifolia A.Nelson 105 documented
Sphaeralcea coulteri (S.Watson) A.Gray 104 documented
Sphaeralcea laxa Wooton & Standl. 88 documented
Sphaeralcea munroana (Douglas ex Lindl.) Spach 80 documented
Sphaeralcea miniata (Cav.) Spach 78 documented
Sphaeralcea grossulariifolia (Hook. & Arn.) Rydb. 76 documented
Sphaeralcea fendleri A.Gray 72 documented
Sphaeralcea incana Torr. ex A.Gray 72 documented
Sphaeralcea mendocina Phil. 40 documented
Sphaeralcea lindheimeri A.Gray 37 documented
Sphaeralcea polychroma La Duke 30 documented
Sphaeralcea rusbyi A.Gray 28 documented
Sphaeralcea cordobensis Krapov. 23 documented
Sphaeralcea digitata (Greene) Rydb. 23 documented
Sphaeralcea leptophylla (A.Gray) Rydb. 22 documented
Sphaeralcea emoryi Torr. ex A.Gray 20 documented
Sphaeralcea fulva Greene 20 documented
Sphaeralcea obtusiloba (Hook.) G.Don 12 documented
Sphaeralcea pedatifida (A.Gray) A.Gray 12 documented
Sphaeralcea laciniata (K.Schum.) Krapov. 10 documented
Sphaeralcea axillaris S.Watson 8 documented
Sphaeralcea australis Speg. 7 documented
Sphaeralcea crispa Hook. ex Baker f. 6 documented
Sphaeralcea philippiana Krapov. 6 documented
Sphaeralcea brevipes (Phil.) Krapov. 5 documented
Sphaeralcea orcuttii Rose 5 documented
Sphaeralcea purpurata (Lindl.) Krapov. 5 documented
Sphaeralcea caespitosa M.E.Jones 0 below the evidence gate
Sphaeralcea chenopodiifolia Rodrigo 0 below the evidence gate
Sphaeralcea decipiens (A.St.-Hil. & Naudin) Krapov. 0 below the evidence gate
Sphaeralcea endlichii Ulbr. 0 below the evidence gate
Sphaeralcea fumariensis (S.L.Welsh & N.D.Atwood) N.D.Atwood & S.L.Welsh 0 below the evidence gate
Sphaeralcea gierischii N.D.Atwood & S.L.Welsh 0 below the evidence gate
Sphaeralcea hainesii Brandegee 0 below the evidence gate
Sphaeralcea janeae (S.L.Welsh) S.L.Welsh 0 below the evidence gate
Sphaeralcea moorei (S.L.Welsh) N.D.Atwood & S.L.Welsh 0 below the evidence gate
Sphaeralcea palmeri Rose 0 below the evidence gate
Sphaeralcea procera Ced.Porter 0 below the evidence gate
Sphaeralcea psoraloides S.L.Welsh 0 below the evidence gate
Sphaeralcea reflexa Fryxell, Valdés-Reyna & Villarreal 0 below the evidence gate
Sphaeralcea sulphurea S.Watson 0 below the evidence gate
Sphaeralcea tehuelches (Speg.) Krapov. 0 below the evidence gate
Sphaeralcea velutina C.Presl 0 below the evidence gate
Sphaeralcea wrightii A.Gray 0 below the evidence gate

Why some species have no pagethe gate

This site is commercial, so it can only publish photographs licensed for commercial use. Roughly three quarters of the photographs on iNaturalist are CC BY-NC, which excludes them. A species needs at least three usable photographs before we will build it a page, because a page with one picture and no traits tells you nothing you could not get from a search result, and generating hundreds of thousands of those is precisely the practice that got the previous version of this site deleted.

So the species above without a link are not errors and they are not omissions. They are real, accepted plants that we cannot yet document to the standard we hold ourselves to, and the count in the photographs column is exactly how far short we fall.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. Accepted names, authorities, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. Photograph counts, restricted to CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA. Retrieved 2026-06-27.