sidalcea malviflora

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

Sidalcea malviflora
    n 1: perennial purple-flowered wild mallow of western North
         America that is also cultivated [syn: {checkerbloom}, {wild
         hollyhock}, {Sidalcea malviflora}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

checkerbloom \checkerbloom\ n.
   a perennial purple-flowered wild mallow of West North America
   ({Sidalcea malviflora}) that is also cultivated.

   Syn: wild hollyhock, {Sidalcea malviflora}.
        [WordNet 1.5]

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