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§1 Plant
Sidalcea neomexicana A. Gray
vernacular salt spring checkerbloom — species · Malvaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb, Subshrub
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Malvaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Sidalcea
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 89 counties across 8 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Low
- Shade
- Low
- Moisture use
- High
- Fire
- Medium
- Salinity
- None
- Anaerobic
- Medium
- CaCO₃
- Medium
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -23 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 135 min.
- Precipitation
- 10–28 in/yr
- pH range
- 6.2–7.8
- Root depth
- 12 in min.
- Fertility need
- Medium
- Soil texture
- medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Single Crown
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Lifespan
- Moderate
- Mature height
- 2.5 ft
- Foliage texture
- Coarse
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Porous
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- Purple
- Fruit colour
- Brown
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Mid Spring
- Seed abundance
- High
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Summer
- Spread rate
- Moderate
- Stratify
- No
- Seeds / lb
- 900,000
- Propagation
- seed
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Routinely Available
- Nursery stock
- No
- Palatable, human
- Yes
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 89 counties across 8 states/territories.
Arizona view state ↗ 9 N ▾
Colorado view state ↗ 23 N ▾
- Archuleta 08007
- Boulder 08013
- Conejos 08021
- Costilla 08023
- Custer 08027
- Dolores 08033
- El Paso 08041
- Fremont 08043
- Grand 08049
- Gunnison 08051
- Jackson 08057
- La Plata 08067
- Lake 08065
- Larimer 08069
- Mineral 08079
- Moffat 08081
- Montezuma 08083
- Pitkin 08097
- Rio Blanco 08103
- Routt 08107
- Saguache 08109
- San Juan 08111
- Teller 08119
Idaho view state ↗ 8 N ▾
Nevada view state ↗ 7 N ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 18 N ▾
Oregon view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Utah view state ↗ 18 N ▾
Wyoming view state ↗ 3 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/SINE3 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/3152721 ↗Record version
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