Plant: shrub; to 1 m tall, the stems setose and with smaller hairs Leaves: usually palmately 3-5-lobed, dentate, mostly 4-8 cm long Flowers: solitary in leaf axils, long-pedicellate; bracts of involucel linear, setose; calyx 23-33 mm long; petals 2.5-5 cm long, yellow with purplish basal spot Fruit: capsules, ovoid, glabrous, 9-14 mm long; SEEDS 2.5-3 mm long, densely sericeous, the hairs 3-4 mm long Misc: Dry, open hillsides and in canyons; 900-1400 m (3000-4500 ft); Apr-Oct REFERENCES: Fryxell, Paul A. 1994. Malvaceae. J. Ariz. – Nev. Acad. Sci. Volume 27(2), 222-236.