Sidalcea glaucescens (Glaucous Checkermallow / Smooth Sidalcea)

7/9/07 Roadside above 6,000' elevation, Carson Pass Hwy. (Hwy. 88), El Dorado National Forest, Amador County, CA

7/9/16 Donnell Vista, SR 108 (Sonora Pass Hwy.), Sierra Nevada,
Stanislaus National Forest, Tuolumne County, CA

LIFE LIST NOTES:
COMMON NAME: Glaucous Checkermallow / Smooth Sidalcea

SPECIES: Sidalcea glaucescens

FAMILY: Malvaceae (Mallow Family)

LIFE LIST DATE: 7/9/2007

LOCATION: Roadside above 6,000' elevation, Carson Pass Hwy. (Hwy. 88), El Dorado National Forest, Amador County, CA

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Treatment from The Jepson Manual (1993):

Perennial from thick taproot and branching caudex, very glaucous, green

Stem 2–7 dm, slender, generally ascending, not rooting; lower stem minutely stellate; upper stem ± glabrous

Leaf: blade glabrous or minutely stellate, 1° lobes 5, those of lower stem-leaves further divided

Inflorescence open, delicate, curved, generally 1-sided

Flower: calyx 6–10 mm, finely stellate; petals 10–20 mm, pink to pink-purple

Fruit: segment 3–3.5 mm, ± inflated, obviously pitted and net-veined, back glandular-puberulent

Ecology: Dry grassy meadows

Elevation: 900–3000 m.  

Bioregional distribution: High Cascade Range, n&c High Sierra Nevada.Intergrades with  S. multifida ,  S. malviflora subsp. asprella