Purple Poppy Mallow – Callirhoe involucrata Buy Cheap Cheapest Pice

Purple poppy mallow, also known as Winecups or Callirhoe involucrata, boasts showy, cup-shaped red-violet flowers that bloom from June through frost. The trailing stems will hang over walls and make an excellent ground cover. A valuable plant for hot south or west-facing beds. Callirhoe involucrata grows well in a wide range of soil types, including clay. Beloved by pollinators of all types, purple poppy mallow is a larval host plant for the Gray Hairstreak and Painted Lady butterflies but is also rabbit resistant! 

A close relative of the hollyhock, mallow is an easy-to-grow, short-lived perennial with tall stems of small blossoms that are held high above softly lobed kidney-shaped foliage. Planted once, mallow often reseeds itself for a continuous display of blooms year after year. The flat, buttonlike seed pods resemble tiny wheels of cheese, which inspired mallow’s lesser-known name of cheese weed. The common mallow likes to grow in lawns, gardens, roadsides, waste areas, and cropland.

Vital details:
Size: 4-6” x 24-36”
Light: Full Sun
Water: Slightly below average, very drought tolerant and easy to grow in well-drained soil.
Hardiness: 4-8
Pollinator value: Purple Poppy Mallow is a larval host plant for the Gray Hairstreak, and Painted Lady butterflies.
Notable features: Pink flowers, native, long-blooming, larval host, attracts hummingbirds, attracts butterflies.
Plant name: Purple Poppy Mallow (Callirhoe involucrata)