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Sidalcea neomexicana
Also called New Mexico Checker, Rocky Mountain Checker Mallow, New Mexico Checkerbloom, New Mexico Checkermallow
A perennial wildflower from the mallow family with pink, checkered blooms, native to the western US and northern Mexico, often found in salty or alkali soils. It grows best in full sun with well-drained soil and tolerates salty, alkaline conditions better than most garden plants.
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.
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, and alkali flats and other salty substrates.
Annual checkerbloom · 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
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Sidalcea neomexicana 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.
