Plant: perennial herb; trailing stems with a mixture of stellate hairs and some semi-lepidote hairs Leaves: more or less reniform, serrate, obtuse to subacute, dentate, 1-3.5 cm long Flowers: solitary in leaf axils; with the pedicel subequal to corresponding petiole; bractlets of involucel filiform (sometimes absent); calyx 8-10 mm long, stellate-pubescent; petals 12-15 mm long Fruit: FRUITS oblate schizocarp, ca. 7 mm diameter; mericarps; SEEDS solitary, glabrous Misc: On roadsides and in fields, often in saline soils;; 50-1500 m (100-5000 ft); flowering throughout the year, or at least in summer months more northerly REFERENCES: Fryxell, Paul A. 1994. Malvaceae. J. Ariz. – Nev. Acad. Sci. Volume 27(2), 222-236.