Poppy Mallow

Callirhoe alcaeoides

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

Profile 82%

Height: Up to about 1.5 feet
Spread: 1–1.5 feet
Light: Sun
Soil moisture: Dry to average

Space about 1 ft apart from its recorded spread, about 100 per 100 sq ft. Enter your bed size for a count

Callirhoe alcaeoides — flower photograph — (c) Brian Finzel, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original photograph

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

Not yet recorded · Leaves · Bloom

This plant is missing most of its facts, so Quercus is looking them up in old botany books.

Recorded in 1 Louisiana parish.

Ecological relationships

Who uses this plant?

What these records mean

3CaterpillarsGenus host records with ranges including LA

Genus host records with ranges including LA · 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 4–9
Flower color: White or pink

What its natural habitat tells you

Growing sources and scope

Flower color · “White or pink” · Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center
Hardiness · “Zones 4–9” · Missouri Botanical Garden Plant Finder
Height · “Up to about 1.5 feet” · Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center (ranked first; Missouri Botanical Garden Plant Finder differs)
Life cycle · “Perennial” · Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center
Light · “Sun” · Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center (ranked first; Missouri Botanical Garden Plant Finder differs)
Soil · “Dry to medium” · Missouri Botanical Garden Plant Finder
Spread · “1–1.5 feet” · Missouri Botanical Garden Plant Finder

Also known as

Plains Winecup

Conservation status

Louisiana rank	S1
Global rank	Not available
LA status	Not verified
Federal status	Not verified

Conservation source

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