Callirhoë papaver
woods poppy mallow
2–4(–10), weakly erect, ascending, or decumbent, 3–10 dm, glabrate or hairy, hairs 4-rayed, stellate, or scattered, simple.
stipules persistent, oblong, ovate, or rhombic-ovate, 4.3–10(–12) mm;
petiole 2–25(–36) cm;
blade hastate, cordate, triangular, or ovate, 3- or 5(–7)-lobed, 3–11 × 3.5–13 cm, surfaces hairy, hairs 4-rayed and simple, lobes narrowly lanceolate, linear, linear-falcate, or lanceolate-falcate.
racemose;
involucellar bractlets 3, rarely absent, narrowly linear, 2–10.5 × 0.1–1.7 mm.
bisexual;
calyx lobes valvate in bud, forming apiculate or acuminate point;
petals reddish purple without white basal spot, 2.2–4 cm.
7.7–11.2 mm diam.;
mericarps 12–20, 2.8–4.2 × 2–3.5 mm, glabrous or sparsely hairy, indehiscent;
beaks not prominent, 0.7–1.7 mm;
collars scarcely differentiated.
= 56, 112.
Callirhoë papaver
Callirhoë papaver is known from the Gulf Coastal Plain. It is local and uncommon in Alabama, northern Florida, Georgia, and Mississippi, and more common west of the Mississippi River in Louisiana and eastern Texas.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
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