Sphaeralcea parvifolia, commonly called small-leaved globe-mallow or small-leaf globemallow, is a species of plant native to the western United States in the Great Basin and Colorado River drainage.

[3] They are gray to green in color and range in size from 1 to 5.5 centimeters long and 1.2 to 5.2 cm wide.

[3][4] The leaves emerge in the spring and die back in summer to conserve water and do not do much stem photosynthesis.

[7] The inflorescence is a crowded and narrow panicle,[3] it has determinate growth on the branches of the flowering stem making it a thyrse.

[11] Sphaeralcea parvifolia grows in much of the Four Corners region of the United States west to the Sierra Nevada.

They grow throughout the state of Nevada, most of Utah and Arizona, and the western portions of Colorado and New Mexico.

[12] They also are found in Idaho, but listed as an introduced species in that state by Plants of the World Online.

[3] Small-leaf globemallow is a host for the caterpillars of the common checkered-skipper along with many other plants in the mallow family.