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Plant Profile

Scadden Flat Checkerbloom (Sidalcea stipularis)

Global Rank: G1 - Critically Imperiled
Legal Status: N/A
Family: Malvaceae
State: CA
Nature Serve ID: 152327
Lifeform: Forb/herb
Date Inducted in National Collection: 10/15/2005

Description:

Where is Scadden Flat Checkerbloom (Sidalcea stipularis) located in the wild?

States & Provinces:

Scadden Flat Checkerbloom can be found in California

Which CPC Partners conserve Scadden Flat Checkerbloom (Sidalcea stipularis)?

Regional Parks Botanic Garden

Not Sponsored

Assigned 06/09/17

California Botanic Garden

Not Sponsored

Conservation Actions

Assigned 06/09/17

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Conservation Actions

Center for Plant Conservation

12/10/2021

In July of 2001, authors Katarina Andreasen and Bruce Baldwin published "Unequal Evolutionary Rates Between Annual and Perennial Lineages of Checker Mallows (Sidalcea, Malvaceae): Evidence from 18S–26S rDNA Internal and External Transcribed Spacers" in the Journal Molecular Biology and Evolution.

Center for Plant Conservation

12/10/2021

Tamara Sasaki completed a PhD thesis at California State University, Sacramento, entitled "The Autecology and Reproductive Biology of the Scadden Flat Checkerbloom, Sidalcea Stipularis Howell & True (malvaceae)" in 1997.

09/01/2020

Based on an September 2020 extract of the California Plant Rescue Database, California Botanic Garden holds 2 accessions of Sidalcea stipularis in orthodox seed collection. There are as many as 743 seeds of this species in their collection - although some may have been used for curation testing or sent to back up.

Nature Serve Biotics

05/02/2017

Endemic to California, Sidalcea stipularis is known from only two occurrences in the Scadden Flat area near Grass Valley in Nevada County. Part of one of the occurrences is supposedly being voluntarily protected by the landowner. Altered hydrology, road maintenance, grazing, and non-native plants threaten this taxon. The large, well-known Caltrans site is threatened by road widening, invasive blackberries and potential catastrophic events.