Sidalcea setosa

Bristly checkerbloom

Family: Malvaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Bristly checkerbloom is a California native perennial found in the Klamath Ranges in meadow habitats at elevations below 1,200 meters. Flowering from June to July, this plant produces pink-lavender flowers 8 to 15 millimeters long in spike-like inflorescences. Growing 50 to 100 centimeters tall with stems that are soft-hairy at the base and stellate-puberulent above, it emerges from a thick taproot with a short caudex. Its leaves are primarily basal, with lower leaves 5 to 10 centimeters wide, shallowly 5 to 9-lobed and coarsely toothed, while upper leaves have more deeply cut lobes. The fruit segments are approximately 2.5 millimeters long with coarsely net-veined outer edges.

Habitat: Uncommon. Meadows

Bloom period: Jun-Jul

Elevation: < 1200 m

Bioregions: KR

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