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Definition of Poppy mallow
1. Noun. A plant of the genus Callirhoe having palmately cleft leaves and white to red or purple flowers borne throughout the summer.
Group relationships: Callirhoe, Genus Callirhoe
Specialized synonyms: Callirhoe Digitata, Fringed Poppy Mallow, Callirhoe Involucrata, Purple Poppy Mallow, Callirhoe Triangulata, Clustered Poppy Mallow
Lexicographical Neighbors of Poppy Mallow
Literary usage of Poppy mallow
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Introduction to Botany by William Chase Stevens (1902)
"LIGHT poppy mallow. Erect perennial, 8 to 20 inches high from a thickened root.
... FRINGED poppy mallow. Similar in habit to the preceding species. ..."
2. How to Make a Flower Garden: A Manual of Practical Information and Suggestions by Wilhelm Miller (1903)
"Six perennials for sunny places: Coneflower, Rudbeckia hirta. Gaillardia aristata.
Golden Marguerite, Anthemis tinctoria. Poppy-mallow, Callirhoe ..."
3. Southern Wild Flowers and Trees: Together with Shrubs, Vines and Various by Alice Lounsberry (1901)
"... and flowers which arc regular and perfect, with numerous stamens united about
the pistil into a sort of column. CLUSTERED poppy mallow. ..."
4. Class Book of Botany: Being Outlines of the Structure, Physiology and by Alphonso Wood (1861)
"poppy mallow. Lvs. palmately 3 to 5-parted, on long petioles, segments oblong or
linear, entire or toothed ; fls. on very long peduncles. ..."
5. The Vascular Flora of Pennsylvania: Annotated Checklist and Atlas by Ann Fowler Rhoads, William M. Klein (1993)
"A.Gray) A.Gray Purple poppy-mallow Herbaceous perennial Cultivated and occasionally
escaped. Represented by a single collection from Bucks Co. in 1904. ..."
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