Definition of Sidalcea

1. Noun. Genus of showy plants of western North America having palmate leaves and variously colored racemose flowers.

Exact synonyms: Genus Sidalcea
Generic synonyms: Dilleniid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Family Malvaceae, Mallow Family, Malvaceae
Member holonyms: Checkerbloom, Sidalcea Malviflora, Wild Hollyhock

Definition of Sidalcea

1. a plant of the marrow family [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sidalcea

Sichuan Yi
Sichuan jay
Sichuan jays
Sicilia
Sicilian
Sicilian Mafia
Sicilian pizza
Sicilians
Sicily
Siculo-
Sid
Sid Caesar
Sida hermaphrodita
Sida rhombifolia
Sida spinosa
Sidalcea
Sidalcea malviflora
Siddhartha
Siddons
Side-striped Jackal
Side-striped Jackals
Siderian
Sideritis
Sidhe
Sidney
Sidney Caesar
Sidney James Webb
Sidney Poitier
Sidney Webb
Sidon

Literary usage of Sidalcea

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. New Manual of Botany of the Central Rocky Mountains (vascular Plants) by John Merle Coulter (1909)
"sidalcea Gray Perennial herbs with rounded and mostly lobed or parted leaves. ... sidalcea candida Gray, PI. Fendl. 20. 1848. Glabrous or nearly so, ..."

2. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.) (1917)
"sidalcea pedata Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 22: 288. Frequent in meadows in Bear Valley, type station. Not otherwise known. Malvastrum Davidsonii Robins, Syn. ..."

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