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Hickman's Checkerbloom
( Sidalcea hickmanii )
Sidalcea hickmanii
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About Hickman's Checkerbloom (Sidalcea hickmanii)
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Sidalcea hickmanii
is a species of flowering plant in the mallow family known generally by the common name chaparral checkerbloom.
Sidalcea hickmanii
is endemic to California, where it grows in the Central Coast Ranges, the Transverse Ranges and parts of the northern coast. There are four subspecies, most of which are separated geographically. The plant grows in chaparral and other habitat, sometimes on serpentine soils. This perennial herb produces a rough-haired stem up to a meter tall with a woody caudex at the base. The leaves have wide, fan-shaped blades which have rippled edges or divisions into narrow lobes. The inflorescence is an array of several racemes of flowers. Each has pinkish to purplish petals up to 2. 5 centimeters long. Subspecies.
Sidalcea hickmanii
ssp. anomala - Cuesta Pass checkerbloom is a rare subspecies known only from the vicinity of the Hwy. 101 Cuesta Pass in the southern Santa Lucia Mountains, in San Luis Obispo County, where it is limited to serpentine substrates. It has deeply lobed to almost compound leaves. While rare it becomes locally abundant in areas recently burned by wildfire.
Sidalcea hickmanii
ssp. hickmanii - Hickman's checkerbloom is limited to the Santa Lucia Mountains of Monterey County.
Sidalcea hickmanii
ssp. parishii - Parish's checkerbloom is a rare subspecies which has a disjunct distribution in the Transverse Ranges. It is known from the Santa Ynez Mountains north of Santa Barbara, as well as the San Bernardino Mountains on the inland eastern side of the greater Los Angeles Basin area.
Sidalcea hickmanii
ssp. viridis - Marin checkerbloom is known from Marin County and the northern San Francisco Bay Area, several hundred miles from the other subspecies.
Plant Description
Plant Type
Perennial herb
Size
2.6 - 3.3 ft tall
Flower Color
Pink, Purple
Flowering Season
Spring, Summer
Wildlife Supported
Butterflies & moths hosted ( 5
likely
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Gray Hairstreak
Strymon melinus
Strymon melinus
*
Common Checkered-Skipper
Pyrgus communis
Pyrgus communis
*
Two-banded Checkered-Skipper
Pyrgus ruralis
Pyrgus ruralis
*
West Coast Lady
Vanessa annabella
Vanessa annabella
*
White Checkered-Skipper
Pyrgus albescens
Pyrgus albescens
Landscaping Information
Sun
Full Sun, Part Shade
Nurseries
Carried by 2
Common uses
Bird Gardens
Natural Setting
Climate
Annual Precipitation: 5.4" - 56.0", Summer Precipitation: 0.21" - 2.46", Coldest Month: 36.6" - 49.7", Hottest Month: 60.5" - 77.0", Humidity: 0.89" - 26.81", Elevation: 17" - 7048"
Alternative Names
Common Names
: Chaparral Checkerbloom
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Sidalcea hickmanii
Sources include:
Wikipedia
. All text shown in the "About" section of these pages is available under the
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License
. Plant observation data provided by the participants of the
California Consortia of Herbaria
, Sunset information provided by
Jepson Flora Project
. Propogation from seed information provided by the
Santa Barbara Botanical Garden
from "Seed Propagation of Native California Plants" by Dara E. Emery. Sources of plant photos include
CalPhotos
,
Wikimedia Commons
, and independent plant photographers who have agreed to share their images with Calscape. Other general sources of information include
Calflora
,
CNPS Manual of Vegetation Online
,
Jepson Flora Project
,
Las Pilitas
,
Theodore Payne
,
Tree of Life
,
The Xerces Society
, and information provided by CNPS volunteer editors, with special thanks to Don Rideout. Climate data used in creation of plant range maps is from
PRISM Climate Group, Oregon State University
, using 30 year (1981-2010) annual "normals" at an 800 meter spatial resolution.
Links:
Jepson eFlora Taxon Page
CalPhotos
Wikipedia
Calflora
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