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Bush's poppy mallow

Habit Plants perennial.
Stems

1–9, weakly erect, ascending, or decumbent, 4.8–14 dm, hairy, hairs 4-rayed, stellate, and often simple, spreading or retrorse, sometimes glabrate.

Leaves

stipules persistent, ovate, somewhat auriculate, 8–16(–21) × 3.5–10(–13) mm;

petiole 2–27(–37) cm;

blade suborbiculate to ovate, (3–)5–7-lobed, 4–14(–19) × (2.3–)5–15 cm, surfaces hairy, hairs stellate and simple, lobes broad, oblong or obovate.

Inflorescences

racemose;

involucellar bractlets 3, lanceolate or ovate, 8–22 × 1–4 mm.

Flowers

bisexual;

calyx lobes valvate in bud, forming apiculate or acuminate point;

petals red or pale red without white basal spot, 2–3.2 cm.

Schizocarps

8.5–11.5 mm diam.;

mericarps 15–20, 4–4.6 × 2–3.5 mm, sparsely hairy, indehiscent;

beaks not prominent, 0.7–2 mm;

collars well developed, 2-lobed.

2n

= 56.

Callirhoë bushii

Phenology Flowering late spring–summer(–early fall).
Habitat Rocky woods, limestone glades, glade margins, meadows, disturbed, open areas
Elevation 200–500 m (700–1600 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
AR; IA; KS; MO; OK
Discussion

Callirhoë bushii is found in the Ozark Plateaus, Ouachita Mountains, and Cherokee Plains. Adventive populations have also been found north of the Missouri River in Iowa and Missouri.

Callirhoë bushii is in the Center for Plant Conservation’s National Collection of Endangered Plants.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Source FNA vol. 6, p. 244.
Parent taxa Malvaceae > subfam. Malvoideae > Callirhoë
Sibling taxa
Callirhoë alcaeoides, Callirhoë digitata, Callirhoë involucrata, Callirhoë leiocarpa, Callirhoë papaver, Callirhoë pedata, Callirhoë scabriuscula, Callirhoë triangulata
Synonyms Callirhoë involucrata var. bushii, C. papaver var. bushii
Name authority Fernald: Rhodora 11: 51. (1909)
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