Definition of Poppy mallow

1. Noun. A plant of the genus Callirhoe having palmately cleft leaves and white to red or purple flowers borne throughout the summer.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Poppy Mallow

poppit
poppits
popple
poppled
popples
popplier
poppliest
poppling
popply
poppodom
poppodoms
poppy
poppy family
poppy head
poppy heads
poppy mallow (current term)
poppy seed
poppycock
poppycocks
poppyhead
poppyheads
poppylike
poppyseed
poppyseeds
poprin
poprins
pops
pops in
pops off
pops one's clogs

Literary usage of 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)
"LIGHT poppy mallow. Erect perennial, 8 to 20 inches high from a thickened root. ... FRINGED poppy mallow. Similar in habit to the preceding species. ..."

2. How to Make a Flower Garden: A Manual of Practical Information and Suggestions by Wilhelm Miller (1903)
"Six perennials for sunny places: Coneflower, Rudbeckia hirta. Gaillardia aristata. Golden Marguerite, Anthemis tinctoria. Poppy-mallow, Callirhoe ..."

3. Southern Wild Flowers and Trees: Together with Shrubs, Vines and Various by Alice Lounsberry (1901)
"... and flowers which arc regular and perfect, with numerous stamens united about the pistil into a sort of column. CLUSTERED poppy mallow. ..."

4. Class Book of Botany: Being Outlines of the Structure, Physiology and by Alphonso Wood (1861)
"poppy mallow. Lvs. palmately 3 to 5-parted, on long petioles, segments oblong or linear, entire or toothed ; fls. on very long peduncles. ..."

5. 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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