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|familia=Malvaceae
|familia=Malvaceae
|genus=Sphaeralcea
|genus=Sphaeralcea
|species=coccinea
|species=coccinea
|common_name=Globe mallow, Prairie mallow, Red false mallow
|common_name=Globe mallow, Prairie mallow, Red false mallow
|name_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia
|name_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia
|usda_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia
|usda_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia
|max_zone=9
|max_zone=9
|image=Upload.png
|image=Sphaeralcea coccinea1.jpg
|image_width=240
|image_width=240
|image_caption='''Scarlet Globemallow'''
}}
}}
'''''Sphaeralcea coccinea''''' ('''Scarlet Globemallow''') is a perennial plant growing 10–30 cm tall from spreading rhizomes with a low habit. They have grayish stems with dense, star-shaped hairs and alternately arranged leaves. The leaf blades are 2–5 cm long, palmately shaped, and deeply cut, with 3–5 main wedge-shaped segments. The undersides of the leaves have gray hairs. The 2-cm-wide flowers are reddish-orange and saucer-shaped, with 5 notched, broad petals, in small terminal clusters. Plants flower from May to October<ref name=Niehaus>{{cite book | author=Theodore F. Niehaus, Charles L. Ripper, and Virginia Savage | title=A Field Guide to Southwestern and Texas Wildflowers | publisher=Houghton Mifflin Company | year=1984 | id=ISBN 0-395-36640-2}}</ref>.
This species is native to grasslands and prairies of the Great Plains and western regions of northern North America.
==Cultivation==
==Cultivation==
