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§1 Plant

Sphaeralcea angustifolia (Cav.) G. Don

vernacular copper globemallow — species · Malvaceae


USDA
SPAN3
GBIF
3152450
Rank
species
copper globemallow (Sphaeralcea angustifolia)
Platephotograph · josevelarde391718CC BY-NC source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Forb/herb, Subshrub
Duration
Perennial
Group
Dicot
Family
Malvaceae Juss.
Genus
Sphaeralcea
§2a

Native status, by region

  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b

County-level range

· 74 counties across 7 states/territories
Legend Native · 74 Introduced · 0 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§3Cultivation

No cultivation specs.

USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.


§4Counties, by state

Recorded in 74 counties across 7 states/territories.

Arizona view state ↗ 7 N
Colorado view state ↗ 7 N
Kansas view state ↗ 3 N
Nevada view state ↗ 1 N
New Mexico view state ↗ 20 N
Oklahoma view state ↗ 2 N
Texas view state ↗ 34 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/SPAN3 ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/3152450 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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