Sidalcea celata

Redding checkerbloom

Family: Malvaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Conservation status: CNPS 3

Redding checkerbloom is a California native perennial found in northern California regions including Shasta and Tehama counties, the Cascade Range, and northern Sacramento Valley in open oak woodlands at elevations of 150 to 370 meters. Flowering from May to June, this plant produces pale pink-lavender flowers with intricate stellate-puberulent calyces up to 12 millimeters long. Growing 40 to 80 centimeters tall with generally erect stems that have bristly bases, it develops an expansive, open branched inflorescence. Its basal leaves are broadly crenate to shallowly 7-lobed, with upper leaves becoming smaller and 5-lobed, covered in distinctive 6-rayed stellate hairs measuring about 1.5 millimeters long. The fruit develops in approximately 7 segments, each 3 to 4 millimeters long with deeply pitted, net-veined surfaces.

Habitat: Open oak woodland, serpentine or not

Bloom period: May-Jun

Elevation: 150-370 m

Bioregions: NCoRI (Shasta, Tehama cos.), CaR, n ScV.

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.