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Gray Globemallow (Soft Globemallow) (Sphaeralcea incana)


Identification Food & Medicinal Uses Web Page Links Online Videos References


Identification

KingdomPlantae – Plants
SubkingdomTracheobionta – Vascular plants
SuperdivisionSpermatophyta – Seed plants
DivisionMagnoliophyta – Flowering plants
ClassMagnoliopsida – Dicotyledons
SubclassDilleniidae
OrderMalvales
FamilyMalvaceae – Mallow family
GenusSphaeralcea A. St.-Hil. –Globemallow
SpeciesSphaeralcea incana Torr. ex A. Gray – Gray Globemallow


Food & Medicinal Uses

It has been used traditionally in various parts of the world, especially India and China. See the Traditional Uses section of:
Phytopharmacological overview of Tribulus terrestris.

Web Page Links



Online Videos



References

1
Native American Ethnobotany

by Daniel E. Moerman
Timber Press, c1998
ISBN: 0881924539
2
Medicinal and Other Uses of North American Plants: A Historical Survey with Special Reference to Eastern Indian Tribes

by Charlotte Erichsen-Brown
Dover Publications, c1989
ISBN: 048625951X
3 Peterson Field Guide for Edible Wild Plants of Eastern/Central North America
by Lee Allen Peterson
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (c1999)
ISBN: 039592622X













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