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Jones Globe-mallow (Sphaeralcea caespitosa var. caespitosa)

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Photo by Blake Wellard
Sources: ESRI, USGS, NOAA

Jones Globe-mallow

Jones Globe-mallow (Sphaeralcea caespitosa var. caespitosa)

Photo by Blake Wellard
Sources: ESRI, USGS, NOAA

Sphaeralcea caespitosa var. caespitosa

NatureServe conservation status

Global (G-rank): G2T2
State (S-rank): S2

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Phenology

Flowering spring to summer. 

Species range

Sphaeralcea caespitosa var. caespitosa is known from Beaver and Millard counties.

Threats or limiting factors

About half of the known occurrences are within grazing allotments and observations in Utah Rare Plant Database reported farming and ranching as a threat at the Warm Cove Ridge occurrence (URPD 2025). The other half of occurrences are on the Desert Experimental Station and may be subject to some grazing impacts, but likely much less pressure than on BLM and SILTA . Drought is also a threat to this species.

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Multicellular organisms that are autotrophic or make complex carbohydrates from basic constituents. Most use photosynthesis.

Flowering plants that produce seeds enclosed in an ovary

Multicellular organisms that develop from the fertilization of an egg by a sperm. Heterotrophic - obtain food by ingestion.

Have skulls and backbones.

Cold blooded, lay eggs on land

Have feathers and lay eggs

Invertebrates with an exoskeleton, jointed appendages, and segmented bodies

Animals having 3 pair of legs, 3 body sections, generally 1 or 2 pair of wings, 1 pair of antennae.

Soft bodied animals with an internal or external shell and a toothed tongue or radula. Have a mantle that lines and secretes the shell and a muscular foot that allows for movement.

Two hinged lateral shells and a wedged shaped "foot". Bivalves lack tentacles and a head.


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