Sidalcea cusickii Piper ssp. purpurea C. L. Hitchcock
[= Sidalcea cusickii]

Oregon: Douglas County: 2 miles north of Oakland.
On heavy black adobe soil, with Camas, Juncus, Brodiaea, and perennial grasses. Plants from heavy short rhizomes, great variation in color, from light pink to deep watermelon. Inflorescence "open" to spike-like, petals very narrow to nearly as broad as in Virgata. Colony of nearly an acre with several hundred plants, these at random sampling, all examined, 50 are semi-glabrous on calyx, leaves, and base of stem. Only one plant functionally staminate, rest all pistillate. With 19611. Phenology: Flowering. Isotype: Sidalcea cusickii Piper ssp. purpurea C. L. Hitchcock. Published 1957. Univ. Wash. Publ. Biology. 18: 47. 1957.

C. Leo Hitchcock 19612, Jun 7, 1952
RM, Accession: 239439, Barcode: RM0002949