Sidalcea malviflora subsp. malviflora

Family: Malvaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Checkcupseal is a California native perennial found in southern Northern Coast Ranges, Northern Coast Ranges, Central Coast, San Francisco Bay Area, southern California, and northern Channel Islands in coastal prairie, scrub, and open forest at elevations generally below 500 meters. Flowering from March to July, this plant produces pink to rose flowers with white veining, 1 to 2.5 centimeters long. Growing with decumbent stems that root at the base and spread 15 to 60 centimeters tall, it has stems covered in dense, coarse stellate hairs and bristles. Its leaves are 2 to 6 centimeters wide with 7 to 9 lobes, somewhat fleshy and coarsely hairy, with upper leaves often more deeply divided. The fruit segments are 3.5 to 4 millimeters long, sparsely glandular with net-veined pitting and a short beak.

Habitat: Coastal prairie, scrub, open forest

Bloom period: Mar-Jul

Elevation: generally < 500 m

Bioregions: s NCo, NCoRO, CCo, SnFrB, SCo, n ChI.

California counties: Humboldt, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Marin, Mendocino, Alameda, Monterey, Sonoma, Calaveras, San Francisco, Del Norte, Contra Costa, Tulare, San Diego, Los Angeles, San Luis Obispo, Riverside, Solano, Orange, Santa Barbara, Kern, San Bernardino, Santa Cruz, Shasta, Ventura

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