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Annual checkerbloom

Sidalcea calycosa

Also called Vernal Pool Checkerbloom, Hog Walla Checkerbloom

Annual checkerbloom
Photo: Dean Wm. Taylor, CC BY 2.0
Family
Malvaceae (Mallow family)
Grows as
Annual
Water
Likes moisture
Native range
California
Climate
subtropical

About

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.

Where it grows

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.

Other Sidalcea plants

Meadow checkerbloom · White checkerbloom · Owens Valley sidalcea · Cusick's checkerbloom · Fringed checkerbloom · Waxy checkerbloom · Valley checkerbloom · Henderson's checkerbloom · Chaparral checkerbloom · Hairy checkerbloom · Keck's checkerbloom · Mapleleaf checkerbloom

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Sidalcea calycosa by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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