Purple Poppy Mallow - Callirhoe involucrata

Also called winecups, because of its flowers.

Features:  Purple Poppy Mallow is low growing, only a foot high, with stems that spread from its base three or more feet to form a mat and can make an excellent native groundcover. The foliage is catching, the flower ornamental. Because of the plant’s trailing nature, it can be planted in a basket with its foliage flowing over the sides. The plant also looks hypnotic trailing over a rock wall. 

The Xerces Society designates this plant as “special value to native bees”  

It also attracts butterflies and  is the larval host to the Gray Hairstreak

Few native plants offer as many home landscape attributes as Purple Poppy Mallow. It’s behaved, beautiful, long-blooming, and attracts pollinators.  , Purple Poppy Mallow is suitable for a range gardens: formal, rock, natural, and wild. It is not strictly native here, but introduced from farther west and found in Kane and DuPage counties for over a century.

Light: Full

Soil: Dry to medium

Height:  1 foot

Blooms: May- August

See more information and photos at: 

Illinois Wildflowers 

Missouri Botanical Garden

Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center