General Culture:

Easily grown in dry to medium moisture, well-drained soils in full sun. Grows well from seed. Long tap root gives plant good drought tolerance but makes transplanting of established plants difficult.

Noteworthy Characteristics:

Fringed poppy mallow (or standing wine cup) is a Missouri native perennial which most frequently occurs in dryish, rocky soils in prairies, meadows and limestone glades in the southwestern part of the State. Plants typically grow 2-3' tall (less frequently to 4') on erect, slender, branching stems which are covered with a bluish-white bloom. Plants have small upper leaves and general plant appearance is lean and lanky. Solitary, upward facing, cup-shaped, five-petaled, magenta flowers (to 2" wide) on pedicels (stalks) to 6" long bloom from mid-spring to September. Flower petal edges are fringed, hence the common name. Stamens and style form a prominent central column typical of mallow family members. Leaves are palmately divided into 5-7 finger-like lobes, hence the species name. The closely related native purple poppy mallow (Callirhoe involucrata - G450) is, by contrast, a procumbent, mat-forming plant.