Malvaceae
Salt spring checkerbloom
Sidalcea neomexicana
- Family
- Malvaceae
- Genus
- Sidalcea
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Common names
By language (1)
- English
- Salt spring checkerbloom, New Mexico checker
Synonyms
- Sidalcea confinis Greene
- Sidalcea crenulata A.Nelson
- Sidalcea neomexicana subsp. crenulata (A.Nelson) C.L.Hitchc.
- Sidalcea neomexicana subsp. diehlii (M.E.Jones) C.L.Hitchc.
- Sidalcea neomexicana subsp. parviflora (Greene) A.E.Murray
- Sidalcea neomexicana subsp. thurberi (B.L.Rob.) C.L.Hitchc.
- Sidalcea neomexicana var. crenulata (A.Nelson) C.L.Hitchc.
- Sidalcea neomexicana var. diehlii M.E.Jones
- Sidalcea neomexicana var. neomexicana
- Sidalcea neomexicana var. parviflora (Greene) Roush
- Sidalcea parviflora Greene
- Sidalcea parviflora var. thurberi B.L.Rob.
Flowers
- In flower
- June to October (from 30 flowering iNaturalist observations worldwide)
- Flower colour
- purple (USDA PLANTS Database)
Characteristics
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb, Subshrub
- Lifespan
- Perennial
- In the US and Canada
- Lower 48 states: native
Photos
FlowerPhoto: Evan M. Raskin, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
FlowerPhoto: Rodolfo Maximiliano Gutiérrez-Sánchez, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
FlowerPhoto: Evan M. Raskin, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: My-Lan Le, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Dean Wm. Taylor, CC BY 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons Photo: Jim Conroy, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Pl@ntNet via GBIF 
Photo: Austin Saunders, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Hardyplants, CC0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Rachel Stringham, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Arturo Castro Castro, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Sue Keefer, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Alaina Krakowiak, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist
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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.