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Sidalcea
''Sidalcea'' is a genus (approx. 25 species) of the botanical family Malvaceae. It contains several species of flowering plants known generally as checkerblooms or checkermallows, or prairie mallows in the United Kingdom. They can be annuals or perennials, some rhizomatous. They are native to West and Central North America. In mid- to late summer the clumps of toothed basal leaves produce erect flowering stems, with 5-petalled mallow-type flowers in terminal racemes, in shades of pink, white and purple. ''Sidalcea'' is generally diploid (2n = 20), but polyploidy (4n, 6n) also occurs. Annuality appears to have evolved multiple times (4+) within this genus, although an ancestral annual state with annual paraphyly is also possible. Further, evolution rates within annual ''Sidalcea'' lineages appear to be faster than those of perennial lineages, at least when examining nuclear ribosomal DNA (internal and external transcribed spacer regions). Selected species: (A = annual, P = pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sidalcea Malviflora
''Sidalcea malviflora'' is a species of flowering plant in the mallow family, known by the common names dwarf checkerbloom, Greek mallow, prairie mallow and dwarf checkermallow. Distribution ''Sidalcea malviflora'' is native to the West Coast of the United States, from Washington to California, and into northwestern Baja California. It is a common plant of chaparral, coastal sage scrub, and other habitat types. Description ''Sidalcea malviflora'' is somewhat variable in appearance and there are many subspecies. In general it is a perennial herb growing from a woody caudex and rhizome, its stem reaching about 60 centimeters in maximum height. It is sparsely to densely hairy in texture. The leaf blades are variable in shape, but are often divided deeply into several lobes. The inflorescence is a dense or loose array of several flowers. The flower has five petals in shades of bright to dark pink, often with white veining, and measuring one to over three centimeters in length. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sidalcea Oregana
''Sidalcea oregana'' is a species of flowering plant in the mallow family known by the common name Oregon checkerbloom. Distribution It is native to western North America from British Columbia to California to Utah, where it grows in a number of moist habitat types, such as marshes and meadows. The plant is somewhat variable in appearance, and the species is divided into a few subspecies; some authors also recognize varieties within subspecies. In general, this is a perennial herb growing to maximum heights well over one meter from a woody taproot. Description ''Sidalcea oregana'' is usually hairy in texture, the hairs thick and bristly toward the base of the stem. Most of the leaves are located low on the stem, basal or on long petioles. Their blades are usually deeply divided into lobes (see image at left); upper leaves may be divided further into leaflets. The inflorescence is a dense or open spikelike raceme of many flowers. Each flower has five pink petals up to 2 centimet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sidalcea Calycosa
''Sidalcea calycosa'' is a species of flowering plant in the mallow family known by the common names annual checkerbloom, checker mallow, and vernal pool checkerbloom. Distribution The plant is endemic to California, along the North Coast and adjacent Northern California Coast Ranges from Mendocino County to Marin County in the northern San Francisco Bay Area, and in sections of the western Sierra Nevada foothills from Butte County south into Tulare County. It grows in wetland habitats, including marshes and vernal pools, in oak woodland and chaparral openings, grasslands, and coastal salt marsh plant communities. Description ''Sidalcea calycosa'' is a rhizomatous herb growing to nearly tall. Despite its common name it may be annual or perennial, depending on the subspecies. The leaves have blades deeply divided into narrow linear lobes, almost divided into leaflets. The inflorescence is a dense, showy panicle A panicle is a much-branched inflorescence. (softcover ). Som ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sidalcea Malachroides
''Sidalcea malachroides'', with the common name mapleleaf checkerbloom, is a flowering plant in the genus ''Sidalcea''. Distribution The plant is native to the California Coast Ranges in the North Coast and Monterey Bay regions of California, and the Oregon Coast Range in Oregon. It grows below in elevation. Within California it is a Vulnerable species listed on the California Native Plant Society The California Native Plant Society (CNPS) is a California environmental non-profit organization (501(c)3) that seeks to increase understanding of California's native flora and to preserve it for future generations. The mission of CNPS is to con ... Inventory of Rare and Endangered Plants. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sidalcea Hickmanii
''Sidalcea hickmanii'' is a species of flowering plant in the mallow family known generally by the common name chaparral checkerbloom. Distribution ''Sidalcea hickmanii'' is endemic to California, where it grows in the Central Coast Ranges, the Transverse Ranges and parts of the northern coast. There are four subspecies, most of which are separated geographically. The plant grows in chaparral and other habitat, sometimes on serpentine soils. Description This perennial herb produces a rough-haired stem up to a meter tall with a woody caudex at the base. The leaves have wide, fan-shaped blades which have rippled edges or divisions into narrow lobes. The inflorescence is an array of several racemes of flowers. Each has pinkish to purplish petals up to 2.5 centimeters long. Subspecies *''Sidalcea hickmanii'' ssp. ''anomala'' - Cuesta Pass checkerbloom is a rare subspecies known only from the vicinity of the Hwy. 101 Cuesta Pass in the southern Santa Lucia Mountains, in San Luis Ob ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sidalcea Keckii
''Sidalcea keckii'' is a rare species of flowering plant in the mallow family, known by the common names Keck's checkerbloom and Keck's checkermallow. Distribution The plant is endemic to California, where it is known from the Inner Northern California Coast Ranges and Southern Sierra Nevada foothills. ;Southern Sierra Three recent occurrences in the southern Sierra, all of which may have been extirpated by now. The plant was thought extinct in the southern Sierra until it was rediscovered at one site in Tulare County in 1992. This site, which was located on private land, has since been converted for orange groves, possibly eliminating the plant.USFWSFinal designation of critical habitat for ''Sidalcea keckii'' (Keck's checkermallow).''Federal Register'' March 18, 2003. The owner of the land has not allowed any searches for the plant since then, but the area is considered critical habitat for this federally listed endangered species. Description ''Sidalcea keckii'' is an annu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sidalcea Nelsoniana
''Sidalcea nelsoniana'' is a rare species of flowering plant in the mallow family known by the common names Nelson's checkerbloom and Nelson's checkermallow. It is native to the Willamette Valley and Coast Range of Oregon and the southwestern corner of Washington in the United States. It is threatened by the destruction and degradation of its habitat, and it is a federally listed threatened species of the United States. Description This plant is a perennial herb producing several erect stems up to a meter tall from a thick taproot. The blades of the leaves are variable in shape. In general, the basal leaves are palmate in shape and the upper leaves are more deeply divided. Each stem can bear up to 100 pink flowers in a spikelike raceme. The species is gynodioecious, producing bisexual flowers and female flowers that lack the ability to produce pollen. Each flower has a purple-tinged calyx of sepals and five petals up to 1.5 centimeters in length. The fruit is a schizocarp with o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sidalcea Neomexicana
''Sidalcea neomexicana'' is a species of flowering plant in the mallow family known by the common names salt spring checkerbloom, Rocky Mountain checker-mallow, and New Mexico checker. Description ''Sidalcea neomexicana'' is a perennial herb growing from a cluster of fleshy roots, the mostly hairless stem growing 20 to 90 centimeters tall. The fleshy leaves are sometimes divided shallowly to deeply into lobes. The inflorescence is a loose cluster of flowers with pink petals up to 2 centimeters long. Distribution and habitat The plant is native to the Western United States and northern Mexico. It can be found in a diverse number of habitat types, including chaparral and coastal sage scrub, Yellow Pine Forest and riparian zones, Creosote bush scrub Creosote bush scrub is a North American desert vegetation type (or biome) of sparsely but evenly spaced desert plants dominated by creosote bush (''Larrea tridentata'') and its associates. Its visual characterization is of widel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sidalcea Hirsuta
''Sidalcea hirsuta'' is a species of flowering plant in the mallow family known by the common name hairy checkerbloom. It is endemic to California, where it grows in seasonally wet habitat throughout the north-central part of the state, such as vernal pools. It is found in the North California Coast Ranges, the Sacramento Valley and San Joaquin Valley, and the Sierra Nevada foothills. Description ''Sidalcea hirsuta'' is an annual herb that produces a thick stem up to 80 centimeters tall, the top parts covered in bristly hairs. The leaf blades are deeply divided into narrow linear lobes and coated in bristles. The inflorescence An inflorescence is a group or cluster of flowers arranged on a stem that is composed of a main branch or a complicated arrangement of branches. Morphologically, it is the modified part of the shoot of seed plants where flowers are formed o ... is a dense cluster of flowers with pink petals up to 2.5 centimeters long. References External link ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sidalcea Hartwegii
''Sidalcea hartwegii'' is a species of flowering plant in the mallow family known by the common names valley checkerbloom and Hartweg's checkerbloom. Distribution The plant is endemic to California, where it grows in the Sacramento Valley and adjacent foothills of the California Coast Ranges to the west, and of the Sierra Nevada to the east. It can be found in oak woodland and grassland habitats below , sometimes on serpentine soils. Description ''Sidalcea hartwegii'' is an annual herb that produces a slender stem up to tall, mostly hairless with occasional branching hairs. The leaf blades are deeply divided into five to seven narrow linear lobes. The inflorescence is a clustered panicle A panicle is a much-branched inflorescence. (softcover ). Some authors distinguish it from a compound spike inflorescence, by requiring that the flowers (and fruit) be pedicellate (having a single stem per flower). The branches of a panicle are of ... of four to six flowers, each with five p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sidalcea Glaucescens
''Sidalcea glaucescens'' is a species of flowering plant in the mallow family known by the common name waxy checkerbloom. Distribution It is native to California, where it grows in the southernmost mountains of the Cascade Range and the Sierra Nevada, its distribution extending just over the border into Nevada. It can be found in mountain meadow habitats of yellow pine forest, red fir forest, lodgepole forest, and subalpine forest. Description ''Sidalcea glaucescens'' is a perennial herb grows from a thick taproot and caudex unit, producing a slender, waxy stem up to long. The leaves are deeply divided into about five lobes which may be forked or edged with smaller lobes. The inflorescence is a loose panicle A panicle is a much-branched inflorescence. (softcover ). Some authors distinguish it from a compound spike inflorescence, by requiring that the flowers (and fruit) be pedicellate (having a single stem per flower). The branches of a panicle are of ... of several flower ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sidalcea Diploscypha
''Sidalcea diploscypha'' is a species of flowering plant in the mallow family known by the common name fringed checkerbloom. It is endemic to California, where it grows in the woodlands and valleys of the central part of the state. Description ''Sidalcea diploscypha'' is an annual herb growing up to 40 to 60 centimeters tall with a hairy to bristly stem. The leaves have blades deeply divided into narrow, forking lobes covered in bristly hairs. The inflorescence is a crowded panicle A panicle is a much-branched inflorescence. (softcover ). Some authors distinguish it from a compound spike inflorescence, by requiring that the flowers (and fruit) be pedicellate (having a single stem per flower). The branches of a panicle are of ... of several flowers. The flower has five pink petals, each with a slight fringe on the tip and sometimes with dark coloration at the base. The petals can be up to 3.5 centimeters long. References External linksCalflora Database: ''Sidalcea diploscy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
