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Callirhoe involucrata
Also called Purple Poppy Mallow, Low Poppymallow, Winecup, Winecup Mallow
Purple poppymallow is a low-growing, drought-tolerant perennial of the Great Plains, known for mats of cup-shaped wine-red flowers. It thrives in full sun and well-drained, sandy soil, and dies back to a small rosette in winter.
Callirhoe involucrata is a species of flowering plant in the mallow family known by the common names purple poppy-mallow, winecup and buffalo rose. It is native to the Great Plains of the United States and adjacent areas in northern Mexico.
The leaves and stems die back in winter, showing at most a small rosette of green leaves immediately above the root crown.
The purple poppy-mallow is one of the most faithful plants in production of vivid blankets of colors according to writer Claude A. Barr. Each plant can cover a great deal of ground with masses of its interestingly cut leaves and many wine-crimson cup shaped flowers. In suitably sandy or well draining soils each plant will produce a large parsnip like root. A good water thrifty ground cover.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Callirhoe involucrata by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
