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3-8 cm. long; stipules lance-elliptic, membranaceous, 8-15 mm. long; inflorescence densely 

 spicate, the spikes 2.5-4 cm. wide, paniculately arranged; bracts lance-hnear, 6-10 mm. long; 

 calyx 5-6 mm. long at anthesis, 8-12 mm. long in age, densely hirsute; petals pink, 12-15 mm. 

 long ; carpels 3-3 . 5 mm. high, smooth, beak slender, 1 mm. long. 



Wet meadows. Humid Transition Zone; northern Humboldt County, California. Type locality: valley of the 

 Elk River. June-Aug. 



IL Sidalcea oregana (Nutt.) A. Gray. Oregon Sidalcea. Fig. 3206. 



Sida oregana Nutt. ex Torr. & Gray, Fl. N. Amer. 1: 234. 1838. 

 Sidalcea oregana A. Gray, Mem. Amer. Acad. II. 4: 20. 1849. 

 Sidalcea nervata A. Nels. Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 17: 94. 1904. 



Erect perennial 5-15 dm. high, stellate-puberulent throughout or base of stems glabrate. 

 Leaves orbicular, 5-10 cm. broad, palmately 5-7-lobed, the lobes 2-3-dentate at apex, harshly 

 stellate-puberulent; upper leaves 3-5-parted, the divisions lanceolate; inflorescence spicate-race- 

 mose, manv-flowered, densely stellate-puberulent; pedicels 5-7 mm. long at anthesis; calyx 3-5 

 mm. broad', 4-8 mm. long, the lobes triangular-lanceolate, 3-5 mm. long; petals 1-2 cm. long, 

 obovate, emarginate, deep rose-purple; pistillate flowers smaller and darker than the perfect; 

 carpels about 3 mm. high, reticulate on the sides and obtuse angles, lightly reticulate to smooth 

 on the back, beak short or wanting. 



Meadows and along streams. Transition Zone; central Washington to northern California and eastward 

 to Montana and Utah. Type locality: west side of the Rocky Mountains. June-Sept. 



Sidalcea oregana var. Cusickii (Piper) Roush. Ann. Mo. Bot. Gard. 18: 174. 1931. (Sidalcea Cusickii 

 Piper. Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 29: 99. 1916.) Pubescence distinctly scrabrous; basal leaves more deeply lobed; 

 inflorescence congested; calyx campanulate, slightly constricted at base of lobes. Umpqua Valley, Oregon. Type 

 locality: "In swales near Roseburg, Oregon." 



12. Sidalcea Hendersonii S. Wats. Henderson's Sidalcea. Fig. 3207. 



Sidalcea Hendersonii S. Wats. Proc. Amer. Acad. 23: 262. 1888. 



Stout perennial 1-1.5 m. high, stems glabrous or very sparsely hirsute. Lower leaves 

 orbicular in outline, 8-12 cm. broad, shallowly 5-7-lobed, the lobes crenate, ciliate, glabrous 

 above, sparsely appressed-hirsute along the veins beneath ; upper leaves 3-5-parted into narrow, 

 coarsely dentate segments ; stipules purplish, triangular-subulate, 8-10 mm. long, acuminate ; 

 inflorescence stellate-puberulent, densely racemose, paniculately branched; bractlets exceeding 

 the pedicels; calyx purple-tipped, accrescent, the lobes triangular-lanceolate, 6-10 mm. long; 

 flowers perfect or gynodioecious, the perfect larger; petals deep rose, 15-25 mm. long, obovate, 

 truncate to shallowly emarginate at the apex ; carpels 7-9, smooth and glabrous, 3 . 5-4 mm. high, 

 subulate beak about 1 mm. long, recurved, persistent. 



In marshes near the sea and on small islands along the coast, Humid Transition Zone; Vancouver Island, 

 British Columbia, to Lane County, Oregon. Type locality: near the shore of Clatsop Bay, Oregon. May-July. 



13. Sidalcea reptans Greene. Creeping Sidalcea. Fig. 3208. 



Sidalcea reptans Greene. Pittonia 3: 159. 1897. 

 Sidalcea favosa Congdon, Erythea 7: 183. 1900. 

 Sidalcea spicata var. reptans Jepson, Man. Fl. PI. Calif. 630. 1925. 



Perennial with slender stems 5-8 dm. high, decumbent at the base and rooting from the 

 nodes, hirsute throughout, few-rayed stellate hairs intermingled with simple on leaves and in- 

 florescence. Basal leaves orbicular in outline, 2^ cm. broad, shallov^dy 5-7-lobed, crenate, sinus 

 narrow ; upper leaves 5-7-parted, the segments coarsely dentate or lobed ; petioles of basal leaves 

 up to 2.5 dm. long, ascending, densely hirsute with spreading hairs, those of upper leaves shorter; 

 stipules thin, oblong, acute to acuminate, 3-8 mm. long, purplish; inflorescence racemose, _ few- 

 flowered ; bracts simple or bidentate, ovate to oblong, acuminate, ciliate, equaling the pedicels ; 

 calyx 4-7 mm. long, stellate-puberulent, the lobes ovate-lanceolate, acuminate; petals obovate, 

 8-20 mm. long, emarginate, rose-purple; carpels favose-reticulate, lightly stellate-puberulent on 

 the back, beak erect. 



In wet meadows. Transition and Canadian Zones; Amador County to San Bernardino County, California. 

 Type locality: Panther Creek, Amador County. June-Aug. 



Sidalcea reptans var. nana Jepson, Fl. Calif. 2: 489. 1936. "Plants 2.5 to 3.25 inches high, the leaves 

 in a close basal tuft; spikes 1- or 2-flowered, the flowering stems nearly naked." Trinity County, California. 

 Type locality: Soldiers Ridge, southeast Trinity County. 



14. Sidalcea asprella Greene. Harsh Sidalcea. Fig. 3209. 



Sidalcea asprella Greene. Bull. Calif. Acad. 1 : 78. 1885. 



Sidalcea elegans Greene, Cyb. Columb. 1: 35. 1914. 



Sidalcea malvaeflora var. asprella Jepson, Man. Fl. PI. Calif. 630. 1925. 



Erect herbaceous perennial 3-8 dm. high, with rough short-rayed stellate pubescence 

 throughout. Leaves 1-10 cm. broad, palmately 5-7-lobed, the lobes crenate or irregularly den- 

 tate ; stipules subulate, 3-5 mm. long ; inflorescence a simple loose raceme ; calyx densely stellate- 

 puberulent, the lobes 5-10 mm. long, narrowly triangular-lanceolate, acuminate; perfect flowers 

 larger and paler than the pistillate; petals 15-30 mm. long, obovate, emarginate, rose-purple; 

 carpels 3-4 mm. high, strongly reticulate, angles acute, beak stout, somewhat recurved. 



Hillsides, Transition Zone; Marion County. Oregon, south to Humboldt County in the Coast Range 



