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Scarlet Globemallow
Sphaeralcea coccinea
Scarlet Globemallow is a low, sprawling perennial wildflower in the mallow family with velvety, star-haired grey-green foliage and clusters of brick-red to orange, cup-shaped flowers held above the leaves from spring into late summer. It spreads outward from a deep, long-lived taproot by both rhizomes and self-sown seed, gradually forming loose colonies. Extremely drought tolerant, it thrives in open, sun-baked, dry, low-fertility ground across the plains and high desert of central North America.
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Growing profile
- Sun
- Full Sun
- USDA zone
- USDA 5–9
- Soil
- Sand · Loam · Clay
- Moisture
- Dry
Vertical layer
Herbaceous- Soil pH
- 6.5–8.4
- Plant type
- Perennial
- Mature height
- 4–16 in
- Mature spread
- Not yet recorded
- Plant spacing
- 12–15 in
- Root type
- Tap
- Spread pattern
- Both
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