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Sidalcea hartwegii
Also called Hartweg's Checkerbloom
Valley checkerbloom is a small annual wildflower native to California's Sacramento Valley and nearby foothills, grown mainly for its purplish pink flowers in late spring. It is seldom cultivated as a garden or houseplant, so care is best copied from related Sidalcea species grown in full sun with good drainage.
Sidalcea hartwegii is a species of flowering plant in the mallow family known by the common names valley checkerbloom and Hartweg's checkerbloom.
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 grow in oak woodland and grassland habitats below 600 metres (2,000 ft), sometimes on serpentine soils.
Annual checkerbloom · Meadow checkerbloom · White checkerbloom · Owens Valley sidalcea · Cusick's checkerbloom · Fringed checkerbloom · Waxy checkerbloom · Henderson's checkerbloom · Chaparral checkerbloom · Hairy checkerbloom · Keck's checkerbloom · Mapleleaf checkerbloom
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Sidalcea hartwegii by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
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.
