Sidalcea oregana spicata

Description

Plant 3--8 dm. Stem generally several, base soft stellate-hairy, occasionally long-bristly, hairs 1--2 mm, toward tip occasionally glabrous. Inflorescence: often in panicle, generally dense in flower, open in fruit; bracts generally youngest flower buds, flowering stalks 2 mm. Flower calyx (3.5)5 mm, generally densely bristly, stellate-puberulent (or stellate-puberulent only), hairs to 2.5 mm; petals generally 10--15 mm, pink to rose-pink or magenta. Fruit segment 2.5--3 mm, generally smooth, sides occasionally weakly net-veined, back sparsely glandular-puberulent, beak 0.1--0.3 mm. Chromosomes: 2n=20,40.