Sidalcea neomexicana |
Sidalcea campestris |
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meadow checker-mallow, meadow sidalcea |
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Habit | Herbaceous perennial from a thick taproot and short rhizome, the stems 0.5-2 m. tall, usually with short, stiff hairs | |
Leaves | Leaves alternate, palmately deeply 7- to 9-lobed, 5-15 cm. broad, the lobes again lobed and toothed. |
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Flowers | Inflorescence an open, elongate raceme, the pedicels 3-6 mm. long; calyx 5-lobed, stellate or stellate and bristly; petals 5, nearly white to pinkish-orchid, 12-25 mm. long, clawed, with marginal hairs on the claws, shallowly notched; stamens 40-70, freed from the staminal tube in 2-3 series, the stamens united in groups; ovary superior, the carpels 5-10 in a ring around a central axis; styles equal to the number of carpels, elongate, stigmatic full length. |
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Fruits | Capsule 3.5 mm. long. |
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Sidalcea neomexicana |
Sidalcea campestris |
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Flowering time | May-July | |
Habitat | Dry fields and roadsides. | |
Distribution | Occurring west of the Cascades crest in Washington, where escaped from cultivation; endemic to the Willamette Valley of Oregon.
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Origin | Introduced from Oregon | |
Conservation status | Review Group 1 in Washington (WANHP) | |
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