Texas Gardening: Texas Native Plant Pictures by color ( Purple ), 1 by bettydee

bettydee wrote:
Callirhoe involucrata var, lineariloba, Wine Cup, Purple Poppy-mallow, Variegated Wine Cup, White Wine Cup, Malvaceae Family, Texas native, perennial.

A low, sprawling herbaceaous plant 6 - 12 inches tall with trailing stems 18 inches long. Hairy stems. The palmately divided 5 - 7 lobed leaves are 1 - 2 inches long and 1 - 2-3/8 inches wide. The glblet shaped flowers have 5 white with a reddish-purple stripe down the center of each petal. The petals are 1" long. The stamen column is whitish or yellowish. Below the petals are 5 bracts, and below the bracts are 3 bract-like structures called the involucel.

The involucel differentiate C. involucrata from other wine cup species.