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Clustered Poppy-mallow

Callirhoe triangulata

Found in longleaf pine sandhills, sandy scrub, and other dry, open habitats. Weakley, Flora of the Southeastern United States (2025), South Central edition What its natural habitat tells you

45
Good

Native to Alabama. How scores work Is it native here?

Profile 88%

Height
1–3 feet
Spread
1–2 feet
Light
Full sun
Soil moisture
Dry to average

Space about 1.5 ft apart from its recorded spread, about 44 per 100 sq ft. Enter your bed size for a count

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Rare or protected plant. Specialist conservation planting; excluded from routine garden suggestions. Plant caution source

Hidden from default planting suggestions. Wildlife value and native status remain unchanged.

At a glance

Life cycle
Perennial
Bloom
July to August

Not yet recorded · Leaves

Recorded in 5 Alabama counties.

Natural habitats

Places it grows wild. Not a planting requirement. Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.

Sandhills

Dry, deep-sand ridges with longleaf pine and turkey oak, kept open by fire.

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Also found with this plant

Wildlife whose habitat models include habitats this plant grows in, in Alabama. Shared habitat, not food. 85 animals.

All wildlife of Alabama

Ecological relationships

Who uses this plant?

What these records mean

3CaterpillarsGenus host records with ranges including AL

Genus host records with ranges including AL · Callirhoe

  • Burnsius albezensWhite Checkered-Skipper, Western Checkered Skipper
  • Burnsius communisCommon Checkered-Skipper
  • Strymon melinusGray Hairstreak
Shropshire & Tallamy 2025, Lepidoptera of North America north of Mexico, ZooKeys 1261 (ODbL)
8BeesSoutheastern regional records

Southeastern regional records · Callirhoe

Individual names are not available yet.

Noori, Seltmann & Orr 2026, A curated and integrated dataset for exploring global bee-plant interactions (GloBI), Zenodo, CC BY 4.0
1Specialist beesPollen specialists

Pollen specialists · Callirhoe

  • Melissodes intortus
Smith, Bachelder, Russell, Morales, Mosher & Seltmann 2024, Bee-Specialization-Modeling v0.6.1 (specialist host table compiled from J. Fowler's pollen specialist bee lists), Zenodo, CC BY 4.0
—BirdsRecorded genus food-resource interactions; not a state feeding claim

No records yet · Ants · Beetles · Flies · Adult butterflies / moths · Other wasps · Other insects

Growing and identification

Plant details

Family
Malvaceae
Hardiness
Zones 5–8
Flower color
Pink
Growing sources and scope
Also known as

Clustered Poppy mallow

Conservation status

Alabama rankS1
Global rankG3
AL statusNot verified
Federal statusNot verified

Conservation source Global and federal source

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