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Sidalcea malviflora (dwarf checkerbloom)

Synonyms: Sidalcea malvaeflora (homotypic); Sidalcea malvaeflora patula

Wikipedia Abstract

Sidalcea malviflora is a species of flowering plant in the mallow family, known by the common names dwarf checkerbloom, Greek mallow, prairie mallow and dwarf checkermallow.
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Infraspecies

Sidalcea malviflora californica (California checkerbloom)
Sidalcea malviflora dolosa
Sidalcea malviflora laciniata
Sidalcea malviflora malviflora
Sidalcea malviflora patula
Sidalcea malviflora purpurea
Sidalcea malviflora rostrata

Attributes

Edible [1]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Flower Type [1]  Hermaphrodite
Lifespan [1]  Perennial
Pollinators [1]  Insects, Lepidoptera
Structure [2]  Shrub
Height [1]  31 inches (0.8 m)
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Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
North Pennine Moors 254789 England, United Kingdom

Predators

Exaeretia nechlys[3]
Exaeretia thoracefasciella[3]
Pyrgus communis (Checkered skipper)[3]
Pyrgus ruralis (Two-banded Checkered Skipper)[3]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 2USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
♦ 3HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0