Callirhoe species (winecups or poppy-mallows)

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Callirohe involucrata

I love this plant. Very enthusiastic.

How to grow

From seeds

  • Cold stratification: 30 days
  • Fridge tested? yes
  • Freezer tested? no
  • Scarification: boiling
  • Soaking needed? 24 hours of soaking in the water as it cools from poured boiling over seeds
  • Light needed (if yes, don’t cover): yes?
  • Germination season in wild? late summer into winter
  • Storage life? number
  • How to tell when seeds ripe? tan and the seedhead breaks apart
  • Native Plant Network Propagation Protocol

How many plants to make seeds?

  • Can self (need more than one to make viable seeds): unknown
  • Separate male and female flowers on different plants: no

From plants

Details about dividing or planting that are beyond the points below.

  • Diggable: only when 1-2 adult leaves or in very loose soil (such as potting soil or damp sand)
  • Root type: taproot
  • Divisible: no
  • Recovers from root cut: only if minor
  • Life span: long-lived perennial
  • Runners (stolons): no
  • Underground (rhizomes): no
  • Clump-forming: no
  • Vogt sociability rating: 3

Where they live

Moisture

  • Dry: yes
  • Medium dry: yes
  • Average: yes
  • Medium wet: yes
  • Wet: yes
  • Aquatic: no
  • Winter flooding: yes
  • Spring flooding: yes
  • Winter drought: yes
  • Summer drought: yes
  • Drought reaction: dies back to root

Light

  • Full shade: no
  • Part shade: yes
  • Full sun: yes

Soil types

  • Sand: yes
  • Loam: yes
  • Clay: yes
  • Shallow:
  • Containers: yes
  • Rocky: yes
  • Gravel:
  • Potting soil: yes
  • Well drained: yes
  • Poorly drained: subject to rust-disease if too wet
  • Nutrient rich: yes
  • Nutrient poor: yes
  • Calcareous: yes
  • Acidic: yes
  • Alkaline: unknown

Disturbance

  • Stepping on: yes
  • Mowing: yes regulaly
  • Cut flower use: yes, for several days in water
  • Deer resistant: no
  • Rabbit resistant: presumed no from deer
  • Earwig resistant:

Thatch and leafy layers

  • Doesn’t seem to be able to germinate with many layers of leaves, so plant in areas where some bare ground is available
  • Once established, can emerge through 1 to 3 inches of loose leaves (woodland edge but not full woods)

Temperature

This is not a species I worry about covering adult plants (or outdoor-sprouted seedlings) in the winter.

  • Lowest temperature recorded for adult plants (including rosettes) without damage (F): not recorded (covered)
  • Lowest temperature recorded for adult plants (including rosettes) without damage (F): 4 (uncovered)
  • Lowest temperature recorded for adult plants (including rosettes) with damage (F): not yet reached (covered)
  • Lowest temperature recorded for adult plants (including rosettes) with damage (F): not yet reached (uncovered)

Interactions with other plants

Can coexist easily with
  • Native species
    • Oenethera speciosa
    • Little Bluestem
    • Salvia greggii
    • Mimosa quadrivalis
    • Teucrium canadense
    • Salvia azurea
    • Artemisia ludoviciana
    • Rudbeckia hirta
    • Ratibida columnifera
    • Rattlesnake Master
    • Solidago rigidiscula
    • Camassia species (ephemeral)
  • Invasive or introduced species
    • bermudagrass
    • crabgrass
Even in ideal habitat, can be outcompeted by
  • Native species
    • Helianthus maximiliani
    • Sorghastrum nutans
    • Big Bluestem
    • Solidago altissima
    • Solidago canadensis
    • Sumac species (such as Rhus copallinum)
    • Vernonia baldwinii
    • Datura wrightii (when it’s not too wet for the Datura)
  • Invasive or introduced species
    • Johnsongrass
    • Autumn clematis
    • Introduced Wisterias
In its ideal habitat, this species can outcompete

For most of these, winecups can coexist in drier habitats where the winecups are smaller, or if mowing occurs.

  • Native species
    • Buffalograss
    • Linum pratense
    • Tetraneuris linearifolia
    • Claytonia virginiana
    • Salvia lyrata
    • Blue-eyed grass
Can this plant tolerate allelopathy by
  • Black walnut: unknown
  • Pines: unknown
  • Eastern red cedars: unknown
  • Introduced disruptive species:
    • Tree of heaven: unknown
    • Bradford pears: unknown
    • Garlic mustard: unknown
Does it need neighbors?
  • Parasitic plant? no
  • Will flop without neighboring plants or support? no, it sprawls on ground on its own

Where can I get?

  • Ask a neighbor if they have any!
  • Dig existing seedlings in late summer to early winter before the taproot gets too big

Plants (potted or bare roots)

Oklahoma
Within one state
More than a state away

Seeds

Oklahoma
  • None to my knowledge
Within one state
More than a state away

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References

Curry, Mary. 2023. North Central Texas Wildflowers. Second edition, online. Decatur, Texas, USA: Self-published.