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Plant Profile

Keck's Checker-mallow (Sidalcea keckii)

Global Rank: G2 - Imperiled
Legal Status: Federally Endangered
Family: Malvaceae
State: CA
Nature Serve ID: 161316
Lifeform: Forb/herb
Date Inducted in National Collection:

Description:

slender, hairy, annual herb. Deep pink flowers appear in April to May.

Where is Keck's Checker-mallow (Sidalcea keckii) located in the wild?

Habitat:

Restricted to the serpentine derived clay soils in association with California annual grasslands at two locations near the City of Porterville in Tulare County and Piedras in Fresno County, CA.

Distribution:

States & Provinces:

Keck's Checker-mallow can be found in California

Which CPC Partners conserve Keck's Checker-mallow (Sidalcea keckii)?

California Botanic Garden

Not Sponsored

Conservation Actions

Assigned 06/09/17

CPC's Plant Sponsorship Program provides long term stewardship of rare plants in our National Collection. We are so grateful for all our donors who have made the Plant Sponsorship Program so successful. We are in the process of acknowledging all our wonderful plant sponsorship donors on our website. This is a work in progress and will be updated regularly.

Conservation Actions

09/01/2020

Based on an September 2020 extract of the California Plant Rescue Database, California Botanic Garden holds 3 accessions of Sidalcea keckii in orthodox seed collection. There are as many as 699 seeds of this species in their collection - although some may have been used for curation testing or sent to back up.

08/05/2020

Based on an August 2020 extract of the California Plant Rescue Database, California Botanic Garden has collected 1 seed accessions of Sidalcea keckii from 1 plant occurrences listed in the California Natural Diversity Database. These collections together emcompass an unknown number of maternal plants

01/01/2010

highly threatened due to proposed rezoning of habitat for development, urbanization, agricultural land conversion, and randomly occurring natural environmental events, livestock grazing, fire, insect predation, and disease outbreaks because of the small

01/01/2010

currently occurs only on a single parcel of privately-owned land, 700 acres