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poppy mallow

DEFINITIONS OF: poppy mallow

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n a plant of the genus Callirhoe having palmately cleft leaves and white to red or purple flowers borne throughout the summer

Types:
Callirhoe digitata, fringed poppy mallow
perennial poppy mallow of United States southern plains states having rose-red or rose-purple flowers
Callirhoe involucrata, purple poppy mallow
hairy perennial of central United States having round deeply lobed leaves and loose panicles of large crimson-purple or cherry-red flowers
Callirhoe triangulata, clustered poppy mallow
densely hairy perennial having mostly triangular basal leaves and rose-purple flowers in panicled clusters
Type of:
mallow
any of various plants of the family Malvaceae
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