Sphaeralcea angustifoliaG.Don

narrowleaf globemallow

WFO wfo-0000505409 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Sphaeralcea angustifolia, photographed by Andrew Tree
fig. a Andrew Tree, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-08 / obs. 204433658
Sphaeralcea angustifolia, photographed by Leticia Jiménez Hernández
fig. b Leticia Jiménez Hernández, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 161830334
Sphaeralcea angustifolia, photographed by Kevin Floyd
fig. c Kevin Floyd, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 194748203
Sphaeralcea angustifolia, photographed by Jay Pruett
fig. d Jay Pruett, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 160425054
Sphaeralcea angustifolia, photographed by Catherine C. Galley
fig. e Catherine C. Galley, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 153597959
Sphaeralcea angustifolia, photographed by Reid Hardin
fig. f Reid Hardin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199863491
Sphaeralcea angustifolia, photographed by Leticia Jiménez Hernández
fig. g Leticia Jiménez Hernández, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 144814844
Sphaeralcea angustifolia, photographed by Reid Hardin
fig. h Reid Hardin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 143476129

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Flowering n = 1,404 observations

Peak flowering in Apr, from 1,404 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 27 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Diadesma stellata Raf.
  • Malva angustifolia Cav.
  • Malva longifolia Sessé & Moc.
  • Malvastrum angustifolium (Cav.) Hemsl.
  • Malveopsis angustifolia (Cav.) Kuntze
  • Phymosia cuspidata Britton
  • Sida stellata Torr.
  • Sphaeralcea angustifolia subsp. cuspidata (A.Gray) Kearney
  • Sphaeralcea angustifolia subsp. lobata Kearney
  • Sphaeralcea angustifolia var. cuspidata A.Gray
  • Sphaeralcea angustifolia var. gavisa Jeps.
  • Sphaeralcea angustifolia var. lobata (Wooton) Kearney
  • Sphaeralcea angustifolia var. lobata S.Watson
  • Sphaeralcea angustifolia var. violacea Burtt Davy
  • Sphaeralcea cuspidata (A.Gray) Britton
  • Sphaeralcea emoryi subsp. nevadensis Kearney
  • Sphaeralcea emoryi var. nevadensis Kearney
  • Sphaeralcea fendleri subsp. elongata Kearney
  • Sphaeralcea fendleri var. elongata (Kearney) Kearney
  • Sphaeralcea fendleri var. perpallida (Cockerell) Cockerell
  • Sphaeralcea incana subsp. cuneata Kearney
  • Sphaeralcea incana var. cuneata (Kearney) Kearney
  • Sphaeralcea incana var. oblongifolia A.Gray
  • Sphaeralcea lobata Wooton

and 3 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.