Calflora: Sidalcea malviflora

Sidalcea malviflora (DC.) Gray ex Benth.

Checker bloom, Wild Hollyhock, checker mallow, dwarf checkerbloom

Sidalcea malviflora, a dicot, is a perennial herb that is native to California and is also found outside of California, but is confined to western North America.

Communities:	Coastal Prairie, Mixed Evergreen Forest, (many plant communities), Valley Grassland, Foothill Woodland, Yellow Pine Forest, Redwood Forest
Elevation:	between 0 and 7545 feet
Family:	MALVACEAE
Related:	See a list of other species in the genus Sidalcea found in California.
	This is a parent record; distribution data is an aggregate of data for subspecies and varieties: Sidalcea malviflora ssp. californica Sidalcea malviflora ssp. dolosa Sidalcea malviflora ssp. laciniata Sidalcea malviflora ssp. malviflora Sidalcea malviflora ssp. patula Sidalcea malviflora ssp. purpurea Sidalcea malviflora ssp. rostrata

Name Status:

Accepted by TJM2 + PLANTS + JM93

Other Names:

ICPN:

Sidalcea malvaeflora

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See a detailed Distribution Grid of this plant in California.

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	There are specimen records from this county in an herbarium.
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Records by County, with approximate record counts in the form: TOTAL / CCH. Click county name to view records.

Alameda: 66 / 28 CCH Alpine: 7 / 6 CCH Amador: 11 / 10 CCH Butte: 14 / 12 CCH Calaveras: 8 / 8 CCH Contra Costa: 51 / 13 CCH Del Norte: 41 / 39 CCH El Dorado: 29 / 28 CCH Humboldt: 54 / 51 CCH Inyo: 2 / 2 CCH Kern: 48 / 46 CCH Lake: 1 / 1 CCH Lassen: 1 / 1 CCH Los Angeles: 39 / 30 CCH Mendocino: 39 / 32 CCH Merced: 3 / 3 CCH Mono: 4 / 4 CCH Monterey: 98 / 77 CCH Modoc: 3 / 2 CCH Mariposa: 7 / 7 CCH Marin: 110 / 54 CCH Napa: 6 / 5 CCH Nevada: 12 / 10 CCH Orange: 17 / 13 CCH Placer: 22 / 15 CCH Plumas: 10 / 9 CCH Riverside: 133 / 112 CCH Sacramento: 1 / 1 CCH Santa Barbara: 183 / 169 CCH San Bernardino: 93 / 92 CCH San Benito: 5 / 3 CCH Santa Clara: 25 / 18 CCH Santa Cruz: 16 / 15 CCH San Diego: 366 / 353 CCH San Francisco: 81 / 40 CCH Shasta: 18 / 14 CCH Sierra: 1 / 1 CCH Siskiyou: 29 / 29 CCH San Joaquin: 1 / 1 CCH San Luis Obispo: 40 / 37 CCH San Mateo: 63 / 38 CCH Solano: 13 / 8 CCH Sonoma: 51 / 30 CCH Tehama: 5 / 5 CCH Trinity: 11 / 10 CCH Tulare: 6 / 5 CCH Tuolumne: 8 / 6 CCH Ventura: 45 / 43 CCH Yuba: 3 / 3 CCH

CCH: records provided by the participants of the Consortium of California Herbaria.

Information about Sidalcea malviflora from other sources:

Photos on Picasa / Flickr / Google Images
website references on Google
USDA PLANTS Profile (SIMA2)
Nursery availability and horticultural info (what grows with this plant?) on CNPLX
2012 Jepson Manual Treament from the Jepson Herbarium,
University of California, Berkeley
Original Publication citation. on the International Plants Names Index
Search efloras.org (Flora of North America)
Search the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center Native Plant Database