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I have had the purple poppy mallow for 4 years. The original 3 plants were placed at different sites with different types of soils, but only one stayed healthy and came back every year. I learned the hard way that poppy mallow prefers hot, dry, well-drained, sandy soil.

7/07

I'm not sure if the new plants were the result of re-seeding or from the original taproot, or both.

Poppy mallow belongs in the mallow family (malvaceae), genus callirhoe, with nine species. It is very low growing, cascading over the rocks, intertwining with the nearby perennial viola and sprawling onto my front walk. It has pretty, palmately-lobed foliage and delicate, cup-shaped flowers... hence the name wine cups.

7/30/09

I much prefer calling them "wine goblets".

7/30/09

Blooming time was listed as June and July.

Mine is still blooming and a few years ago it bloomed well in to September.

9/07

Poppy mallow was 1999 Plant Select® winner.

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