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|accepted_name=Sidalcea glaucescens
|accepted_authority=Greene
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bull. Calif. Acad. Sci.
|place=1: 77. 1885
|year=1885
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|common_names=Waxy checkerbloom
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
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|code=F
|label=Selected by author to be illustrated
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|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Sidalcea montana
|authority=Congdon
}}
|hierarchy=Malvaceae;Malvaceae subfam. Malvoideae;Sidalcea;Sidalcea glaucescens
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Malvaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Malvaceae subfam. Malvoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Sidalcea]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Sidalcea glaucescens]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 6
|mention_page=page 324, 325, 326, 332, 346
|treatment_page=page 333
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> perennial, 0.2–0.5(–0.7) m, glaucous, with taproot and caudex, without rhizomes. <b>Stems</b> usually few to many, clustered, sprawling or decumbent to ascending, rarely erect, not rooting, solid, glaucous, proximally usually stellate-puberulent, sometimes glabrous, distally glabrous. <b>Leaves</b> basal and cauline, basal leaves 9 or fewer or deciduous; stipules lanceolate, (2–)3–5(–6) × 0.5–1.5 mm; petioles of basal and proximal cauline leaves 6–14 cm, 3–4 times as long as blades, reduced distally to 1/2 times to as long as blades; blade reniform-orbiculate, palmately 5(–7)-lobed, deeply incised, 2–6(–8) × 2–6(–8) cm, glaucous, surfaces glabrous or minutely stellate-puberulent, lobes shallowly dentate, more deeply divided on distal leaves, margins entire, distalmost sometimes linear, unlobed. <b>Inflorescences</b> ascending, open, calyces not conspicuously overlapping except sometimes in bud, usually unbranched, 3–10(–20)-flowered, elongate, 1-sided, 8–20 cm, axis curved between flowers, sometimes zigzag in appearance; bracts linear to lanceolate, distinct or connate and 2-fid, 5 mm, proximal divided to base, distal often undivided, shorter than to equaling pedicels. <b>Pedicels</b> 2–3(–10) mm; involucellar bractlets absent. <b>Flowers</b> bisexual or unisexual and pistillate, plants gynodioecious; calyx 5–10 mm, enlarging in fruit, hairy, hairs scattered, minute, stellate and sometimes capitate, glandular; petals pink to pink-purple, pale-veined at least when dry, pistillate (7–)9–12 mm, bisexual 15–20(–25) mm; staminal column 4–7 mm, stellate-hairy; anthers pale yellow or pinkish to white; stigmas 6–8. <b>Schizocarps</b> 5–7 mm diam.; mericarps 6–8, 3–3.5 mm, roughened, sides reticulate-veined and deeply pitted, back reticulate-veined and glandular-puberulent, mucro 0.3–1 mm. <b>Seeds</b> 2 mm. <b>2n</b> = 40.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering (May–)Jun–Aug(–Sep).
|habitat=Dry, grassy meadows, open, usually red fir, juniper, or ponderosa pine forests, often serpentine
|elevation=(900–)1500–3000 m
|distribution=Calif.;Nev.
|discussion=<p><i>Sidalcea glaucescens</i> is a relatively common, generally low-growing plant of relatively high elevations; it occurs from the central and northern Sierra <i>Nevada</i> to the southern Cascade and Klamath ranges and to north of Reno, <i>Nevada</i>. It usually can be distinguished by its highly glaucous, waxy stems and leaves, 3–5-lobed, entire-margined leaves, and basal leaves that wither by the time fruit is mature; additionally, proximal flowers are spaced several centimeters apart and leafy-bracted, and the inflorescence axis is curved between flowers. It has been confused with <i>S. asprella</i>, <i>S. elegans</i>, and <i>S. multifida</i>, to which it appears to be closely related. It can generally be distinguished from <i>S. multifida</i> by its 5(–7)-lobed leaves, the lobes shallowly incised or entire, its nonpersisting, fewer basal leaves, and its more-procumbent habit. <i>Sidalcea elegans</i> and <i>S. virgata</i> in southwestern Oregon also have been confused with <i>S. glaucescens</i>.</p>
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name=Sidalcea glaucescens
|author=
|authority=Greene
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Sidalcea montana
|basionyms=
|family=Malvaceae
|phenology=Flowering (May–)Jun–Aug(–Sep).
|habitat=Dry, grassy meadows, open, usually red fir, juniper, or ponderosa pine forests, often serpentine
|elevation=(900–)1500–3000 m
|distribution=Calif.;Nev.
|reference=None
|publication title=Bull. Calif. Acad. Sci.
|publication year=1885
|special status=Endemic;Selected by author to be illustrated
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|subfamily=Malvaceae subfam. Malvoideae
|genus=Sidalcea
|species=Sidalcea glaucescens
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