Definition of Purple poppy mallow

1. Noun. Hairy perennial of central United States having round deeply lobed leaves and loose panicles of large crimson-purple or cherry-red flowers.

Exact synonyms: Callirhoe Involucrata
Generic synonyms: Poppy Mallow

Lexicographical Neighbors of Purple Poppy Mallow

purple loosestrifes
purple martin
purple milk vetch
purple mullein
purple nightshade
purple nurple
purple nurples
purple onion
purple orchis
purple osier
purple patch
purple patches
purple pea
purple poppy mallow (current term)
purple prose
purple rock brake
purple sage
purple sandpiper
purple sanicle
purple saxifrage
purple silkweed
purple state
purple strawberry guava
purple swamphen
purple swamphens
purple trillium
purple velvet plant
purple virgin's bower

Literary usage of Purple poppy mallow

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Introduction to Botany by William Chase Stevens (1902)
"purple poppy mallow. Perennials, I to 2 feet long, procumbent or ascending from a deep root. Leaves cordate-orbicular, palmately lobed or incised. ..."

2. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States: Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1897)
"... as long as the 5-lobed calyx; carpels numerous, hairy, not rugose, short- beaked. 4. Callirrhoe involucrata (T. &G.) A. Gray. Purple Poppy-Mallow. (Fig. ..."

3. The Vascular Flora of Pennsylvania: Annotated Checklist and Atlas by Ann Fowler Rhoads, William M. Klein (1993)
"A.Gray) A.Gray Purple poppy-mallow Herbaceous perennial Cultivated and occasionally escaped. Represented by a single collection from Bucks Co. in 1904. ..."

4. The Vascular Flora of Pennsylvania: Annotated Checklist and Atlas by Ann Fowler Rhoads, William M. Klein (1993)
"A.Gray) A.Gray Purple poppy-mallow Herbaceous perennial Cultivated and occasionally escaped. Represented by a single collection from Bucks Co. in 1904. ..."

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