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Bush's poppy mallow

Habit Plants perennial. Plants perennial.
Stems

2–4(–10), weakly erect, ascending, or decumbent, 3–10 dm, glabrate or hairy, hairs 4-rayed, stellate, or scattered, simple.

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, 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.

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, rarely absent, narrowly linear, 2–10.5 × 0.1–1.7 mm.

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 reddish purple without white basal spot, 2.2–4 cm.

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

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.

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, 112.

= 56.

Callirhoë papaver

Callirhoë bushii

Phenology Flowering spring–summer. Flowering late spring–summer(–early fall).
Habitat Pine, oak, and pine-oak woods, margins of woods, dry prairies, old fields Rocky woods, limestone glades, glade margins, meadows, disturbed, open areas
Elevation 0–200 m (0–700 ft) 200–500 m (700–1600 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
AL; AR; FL; GA; LA; MS; TX
from FNA
AR; IA; KS; MO; OK
Discussion

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.)

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. FNA vol. 6, p. 244.
Parent taxa Malvaceae > subfam. Malvoideae > Callirhoë Malvaceae > subfam. Malvoideae > Callirhoë
Sibling taxa
Callirhoë alcaeoides, Callirhoë bushii, Callirhoë digitata, Callirhoë involucrata, Callirhoë leiocarpa, Callirhoë pedata, Callirhoë scabriuscula, Callirhoë triangulata
Callirhoë alcaeoides, Callirhoë digitata, Callirhoë involucrata, Callirhoë leiocarpa, Callirhoë papaver, Callirhoë pedata, Callirhoë scabriuscula, Callirhoë triangulata
Synonyms Malva papaver Callirhoë involucrata var. bushii, C. papaver var. bushii
Name authority (Cavanilles) A. Gray: Mem. Amer. Acad. Arts, n. s. 4: 17. (1849) Fernald: Rhodora 11: 51. (1909)
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