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Plant profile · Austin & Hill Country

Woolly Globemallow

Sphaeralcea lindheimeri
native · Central Texas

Woolly Globemallow is a shrub native to Central Texas. It wants full sun or part shade and low water. Blooms orange in Feb–May. Evergreen — it holds its leaves through winter.

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The facts

3 sources
Type
Shrub
Sun
Full sun to part shade (4–8 hrs of direct sun)
Water
Low
Bloom
Feb–May · orange
Foliage
Evergreen

Where it grows

2 occurrence records in Central Texas (GBIF).

Can you buy it?

Also grows here — hard to find. Native and recorded growing in Central Texas, but not on the grower stock lists we read. Sourcing varies: some are stocked widely, others you will have to hunt for.