Wildflowers Found in Oregon

Oregon Checker-Mallow (Marsh Hollyhock)

Sidalcea oregana - Locally common, late spring-early summer, perennial, 2-4 ft. Upright from a woody taproot. Stem with coarse, bristly, or star-shaped hairs on lower section, smooth upper section. Leaves on lowest section of stem lobed. Inflorescence stems and branches leafy, leaves usually deeply lobed and sharply toothed. Flowers in loose spike-like raceme with pink to deep rose, oval, 1/2-3/4 in. long petals./ Grows in meadows, stream margins, wet places, also in ponderosa pine forests and sagebrush, at low to high elevations. Native.