Plant Details

Accepted name:: Sphaeralcea digitata (Greene) Rydb. [Malvaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( Medium Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
slippery globemallow	Other	Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:

Kew's taxonomic resources include 5 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Malvastrum digitatum Greene Leafl. Bot. Observ. Crit. 1: 154 (1905).
Sphaeralcea digitata var. tenuipes (Wooton & Standl.) Kearney & Peebles J. Washington Acad. Sci. 29: 486 (1939).
Sphaeralcea digitata subsp. tenuipes (Wooton & Standl.) Kearney Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. 19: 91 (1935).
Sphaeralcea pedata var. angustiloba A.Gray Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 22: 292 (1887).
Sphaeralcea tenuipes Wooton & Standl. Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 16: 148 (1913).

This plant is cited in medicinal sources using the following names:

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Sphaeralcea digitata (Greene) Rydb.	Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Sphaeralcea digitata (Greene) Rydb. subsp. digitata	World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)

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