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rooting at the nodes ; herbage glabrous below, sparsely hirsute above. Basal leaves orbicular, 

 shallowly crenately incised, 2.5-10 cm. broad; cauline leaves 7-11-parted, the divisions oblanceo- 

 late to oblong-lanceolate ; stipules 8-16 mm. long, ovate, obtuse to acuminate ; bracts thin, bilobed, 

 hirsute, 1-12 mm. long; inflorescence a dense spike 1.5-3 cm. long; calyx densely hirsute, 8-12 

 mm. long, the lobes ovate, acuminate, 6-10 mm. long, purplish, distinctly nerved in age; petals 

 obovate, 15-25 mm. long, rose-purple; outer phalanges of stamineal column distinct; carpels 

 striate on the back, faintly reticulate laterally, beak slender. 



Marshy meadows. Humid Transition Zone; in the vicinity of Point Reyes, Marin County, California. 

 Type locality: Russel Ranch, Point Reyes. May-July. 



7. Sidalcea pedata A. Gray. Pedate Sidalcea. Fig. 3202. 



Sidalcea pedata A. Gray. Proc. Amer. Acad. 22: 288. 1887. 

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



Perennial with 1 to several slender erect or ascending scapiform stems 1-5 dm. high from a 

 tuberous-thickened root, more or less purplish throughout, glabrescent to hirsute with some 

 intermingled stellate hairs. Leaves mostly basal, 3-5 cm. broad, all alike, pedately 5-7-parted, 

 the divisions 2-3-lobed, the lobes linear to oblong, 1-3 mm. wide, hirsute on both surfaces, with 

 intermingled stellate hairs beneath ; petioles 3-10 cm. long, hirsute ; inflorescence many-flowered, 

 minutely stellate-puberulent ; bracts simple to bifid, 3 mm. long ; calyx campanulate, 2-3 mm. 

 broad, 5-6 mm. long, the lobes narrowly lanceolate, acuminate ; petals 8-10 mm. long, narrowly 

 obovate, emarginate ; carpels 2-3 mm. high, smooth and glabrous, the angles rounded, beak 

 deltoid, recurved, ciliolate. 



Wet meadows. Transition Zone; San Bernardino Mountains, California. Type locality: Bear Valley. 

 June-Aue. 



8. Sidalcea ranunculacea Greene. Marsh Sidalcea. Fig. 3203. 



Sidalcea ranunculacea Greene, Leaflets Bot. Obs. 1 ; 75. 1904. 



Sidalcea interrupta Greene, loc. cit. 



Sidalcea spicata var. ranunculacea Roush, Ann. Mo. Bot. Gard. 18: 166. 1931. 



Sidalcea reptans var. ranunculacea Jepson, Fl. Calif. 2: 489. 1936. 



Slender plant 3-5 dm. tall from a creeping horizontal rootstock, sparsely villous-hirsute 

 throughout or stems often glabrate. Leaves orbicular in outline, 1-6 cm. broad, the lower shal- 

 lowly 5-9-lobed and irregularly crenate, the upper divided into 3-7 lanceolate entire or 1-3- 

 toothed segments ; stipules broadly ovate to oblong, membranaceous, 3-8 mm. long ; inflorescence 

 a short, crowded spike 2-4 cm. long at anthesis, elongating somewhat in maturity; pedicels 0.5—3 

 mm. long; calyx silky-villous and with some stellate hairs, 4-6 mm. long at anthesis, the lobes 

 lanceolate-acuminate, 1-1.5 mm. wide; petals obovate, rose-purple, 6-10 mm. long; carpels 1.5-2 

 mm. high, nearly as wide, depressed, distinctly reticulate, grooved on the back, beak erect or 

 slightly recurved, 0.5 mm. high. 



Moist meadows and marshy places, Transition and Canadian Zones; mountains of Tulare, Kern, and San 

 Bernardino Counties, California. Type locality: Hockett Meadows, Sierra Nevada. July-Sept. 



9. Sidalcea spicata (Regel) Greene. Spiked Sidalcea. Fig. 3204. 



Callirhoe spicata Regel, Gartenfl. 2\:29\. pi. 737. figs. 3. 4. 1872. 

 Sidalcea spicata Greene, Bull. Calif. Acad. 1: 76. 1885. 



Perennial 3-6 dm. high, stems hirsute at base, with intermingled stellate hairs on the leaves, 

 upper part of the stem and the inflorescence. Leaves reniform-orbicular, hirsute on the upper 

 surface, pubescent with geminate and stellate hairs beneath, 3-6 cm. broad, basal leaves 5-7- 

 lobed, the lobes deeply 3-5-toothed, upper leaves palmately 5-7-divided, the divisions entire or 

 deeply trifid, oblong to linear-lanceolate; petioles 6-15 cm. long, hirsute; inflorescence spicate, 

 many-flowered ; pedicels 2-4 mm. long at anthesis ; calyx 4-8 mm. long, the lobes ovate-acute, 

 stellate-puberulent with simple hairs along margins and midvein ; petals obovate, deeply emar- 

 ginate, rose-purple, 8-14 mm. long; carpels smooth or very faintly reticulate on the angles, 2.5-3 

 mm. high, beak small, slender, recurved. 



Open coniferous forests and mountain meadows, Transition and Canadian Zones; western Oregon to Ne- 

 vada, southward through the Siskiyou Mountains and Sierra Nevada to Mono County, California. Type lo- 

 cality: Sierra Nevada, California. June-Aug. 



Sidalcea spicata subsp. valida (Greene) Wiggins. (Sidalcea valida Greene, Pittonia 3: 157. 1897; 

 Sidalcea hydrophila Heller, Muhlenbergia 1: 107. 1904.) Only stellate-puberulent on the inflorescence; plant 

 robust, to 2 m. tall, stems open, glabrate and purplish; spikes broad, crowded; beak stout, erect. ^ Marshy places 

 and wet meadows. Klamath County, Oregon, to Sonoma County, California. Type locality: Knight's Valley, 

 Sonoma County, California. 



Sidalcea spicata var. tonsa M. E. Peck, Madrono 6: 14. 1941. Leaves mostly devoid of long, simple 

 hairs beneath; calyx stellate-puberulent but lacking spreading hairs except along margins of lobes. East of 

 the Cascades from Klamath County to Wasco and Wallowa Counties and the Steen Mountains, Oregon. Type 

 locality: Big Summit Prairie, Ochoco National Forest, Oregon. 



10. Sidalcea eximia Greene. Coast Sidalcea. Fig. 3205. 



Sidalcea eximia Greene, Cyb. Columb. 1: 34. 1914. 



Robust paniculately branched plant 1-2 m. high with stout stems and coarsely hirsute herbage. 

 Lower leaves 10-20 cm. wide, palmately cleft into 5-9 irregularly coarse-toothed lobes, petioles 

 15-45 cm. long; upper leaves 5-9-divided into linear or oblong, entire or few-toothed segments 



