Malvaceae
White checkerbloom
Sidalcea candida
- Family
- Malvaceae
- Genus
- Sidalcea
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Common names
By language (5)
- Arabic
- خورنق أبيض
- English
- White checkerbloom
- nv
- Łį́į́dą́ą́ʼ
- Swedish
- Vit axmalva
- Welsh
- Coeg-hocysen y paith
Synonyms
- Sidalcea candida var. glabrata C.L.Hitchc.
- Sidalcea candida var. tincta Cockerell
Characteristics
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Lifespan
- Perennial
- In the US and Canada
- Lower 48 states: native
Photos

Photo: peganum from Small Dole, England, CC BY-SA 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: JerryFriedman, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: JerryFriedman, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons Photo: Dominicus Johannes Bergsma, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: peganum from Small Dole, England, CC BY-SA 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: peganum from Small Dole, England, CC BY-SA 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: peganum from Small Dole, England, CC BY-SA 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: peganum from Small Dole, England, CC BY-SA 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Patrick Alexander from Las Cruces, NM, CC0, from Wikimedia Commons
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Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0); common names, US characteristics from USDA PLANTS Database (2025-05-29, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.