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|familia=Malvaceae
 
|familia=Malvaceae
|genus=Sphaeralcea  
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|genus=Sphaeralcea
|species=coccinea  
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|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
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|usda_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia
 
|usda_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia
 
|max_zone=9
 
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|image=Sphaeralcea coccinea1.jpg
 
|image_width=240
 
|image_width=240
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|image_caption='''Scarlet Globemallow'''
 
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Describe the plant here...
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'''''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>.  
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This species is native to grasslands and prairies of the Great Plains and western regions of northern North America.
    
==Cultivation==
 
==Cultivation==

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