Callirhoe bushii Bush's Poppy Mallow Seed & Plants
 (kal-lih-ROE-ee  BUSH-ee-eye)
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Callirhoe bushii Bush's Poppy Mallow potted plants are available, $4.00 each plus shipping.
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Callirhoe bushii, Bush's Poppy Mallow is a very attractive native wildflower growing 2 to 3 feet tall with bright magenta flowers. Bush's poppymallow plants are best grown in full sun or light shade in average, well drained soil. It provides an attractive addition to a formal perennial butterfly garden or naturalized in a prairie meadow.  Plant Callirhoe bushii with other native wildflowers like Missouri Black-eyed Susan, Prairie Dropseed, prairie Coreopsis, pale-purple coneflower, and blazing stars like Narrow-leaf Gayfeather and Rough Blazing Star.

Plant Bush's Poppy mallow seeds outside in a prepared bed in summer/fall for germination the next spring.  When planting Callirhoe bushii seeds germination may be improved with scarification.  Bush's Poppy Mallow seeds have a hard outer shell covering a small hard bean shaped seed.  Scarify by rubbing seeds hard between 2 sheets of coarse sandpaper.

Bush's poppy Mallow is an attractive plant occurring naturally in rocky open woods, glades, and prairies in Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas, Kansas, and Oklahoma.  Malvaceae (Mallow Family)

The map below shows areas where native Callirhoe bushii plants grow wild but it can be planted and will grow over most of the United States.  USDA plant hardiness zones 3 to 9.

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Callirhoe bushii Bush's Poppy Mallow Plant distribution map complements of USDA, NRCS. 2001. The PLANTS Database, Version 3.1
  (http://plants.usda.gov). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA.

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Callirhoe involucrata var. bushii, Callirhoe papaver var. bushii

Callirhoe bushii and many other Callirhoe species are popular garden plants.  Callirhoe bushii is a lovely member of the poppy family, producing striking magenta flowers. First described in 1909, the plant was named in honor of Benjamin Franklin Bush (1858-1937), a prominent botanist of the time. However, considerable debate ensued over the true taxonomic status of the species and only recently has the name C. bushii been accepted as correct (Dorr 1990).