Napaea dioica
glade mallow
Malvaceae, the mallow family
Coefficient of Conservatism = 4
July 18, 2023
Glade mallow is a striking tall herbaceous plant famous for being the only dioecious (i.e., having separate male and female plants) member of the Malvaceae family to occur in North America (indeed of the entire western Hemisphere). The plants grow in clusters of apparently clonal stems.
July 18, 2013
The flowers are white, approx. 1 cm across, borne in branched panicles
In typical Malvaceae fashion, the stamens are fused by their anthers into a tube around which the anthers project, looking like a tiny brush.
Left: staminate (male). Right: pistillate (female).