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Callirhoe involucrata (Nutt. ex Torr. & A.Gray) A.Gray

Purple poppymallow, low poppymallow, poppy mallow, purple poppy mallow

Climate known 72 photographs
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Summary

Callirhoe involucrata is a species of flowering plant in the mallow family known by the common names purple poppy-mallow, winecup and buffalo rose. It is native to the Great Plains of the United States and adjacent areas in northern Mexico.

Text from Wikipedia, “Callirhoe involucrata”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written. Kept separate from everything derived here.

Family
Malvaceae
Described by
(Nutt. ex Torr. & A.Gray) A.Gray
Native to
Colorado, Iowa, Kansas +8
Wild records
1810 in range· 553 open

At a glance

Warmest month
34°C
Aug, mean day; nights 24 °C (CHELSA)
Rain
872mm/yr
12 wet months · peak May 112 mm (CHELSA)
Light
17–44DLI
mol/m²/day, winter to summer, open sky (CHELSA shortwave)
In short condensed by rule from the cultivation cards · not written by a person
Rain rule: no season, 70% of the rain takes 8 months (March to October in the northern hemisphere). Habitat rain 872 mm a year, wettest May at 112 mm, driest January at 42 mm (habitat calendar, northern hemisphere). Open sky over the habitat: 17 to 44 mol/m²/day. Cold floor -6.4 °C (1st-percentile habitat night, NASA POWER).
Each sentence is one card's own one-line form, written by the same rule as the card (Its year, Rain, Light, Temperature); the note cannot say what a card does not. Months are given for the northern hemisphere (set your site in Settings to change this), and the habitat's own alongside. The cards · the figures.

Also known as Callirhoe involucrata f. incisa M.Hopkins; Callirhoe involucrata f. novomexicana (Baker fil.) Waterf.; Callirhoe involucrata var. novomexicana Baker fil.; Callirhoe verticillata Groenland; Malva involucrata Torr. & A.Gray and 3 more.

Cultivation

Its year Rain rule: no season, 70% of the rain takes 8 months (March to October in the northern hemisphere).

This species’ habitat figures, and what two fixed rules read from them.

The rain rule reads no season: 70% of the year's rain (669 mm of 872 mm) takes 8 months, March to October. Mean temperature moves 20.6 °C between the warmest and coldest month. Months are the habitat's, northern hemisphere; shifted six months for a southern-hemisphere collection: September to April.

Read from the median year of CHELSA monthly rainfall and mean temperature across the envelope cells: the rain rule takes the smallest set of months carrying 70% of the rain and calls it winter when its mean is more than half a degree below the year's, summer when more than that above, and neither in between; the temperature rule, used only under 120 mm, names the cooler six months when they are at least a degree cooler than the other six. Months are shifted for the other hemisphere only where the temperature curve gives a season to reverse. A reading of the curves, not an observation of the plant.

Rain Habitat rain 872 mm a year, wettest May at 112 mm, driest January at 42 mm (habitat calendar, northern hemisphere).

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

872 mm a year at the habitat, 669 mm of it March to October. Wettest month May at 112 mm, driest January at 42 mm. Across the envelope cells the year's total runs 554 mm to 1124 mm (10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year) (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA; habitat calendar, northern hemisphere).

CHELSA monthly precipitation, median year across the envelope cells. The rain that falls where the species is recorded; nothing about how the plant takes water.

Light Open sky over the habitat: 17 to 44 mol/m²/day.

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

Open sky over the habitat: 17 to 44 mol/m²/day across the year (daily light integral, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA; the lowest 10th-percentile month across the cells is 14, the highest 90th-percentile month 45).

CHELSA shortwave radiation at each envelope cell, a daily-mean flux taken to a daily total and converted at 2.07 mol of PAR per MJ. The sky over the habitat, measured; what reaches a plant under a rock, a shrub or a shade cloth is not.

Warmth and air Cold floor -6.4 °C (1st-percentile habitat night, NASA POWER).

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

Temperature

Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at the typical cell is -6.4 °C, the absolute minimum -16.9 °C, about 39 frost nights a year (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 42.8 °C. Monthly means: coldest night 3.7 °C in January (across the envelope cells -5.8 °C to 7.7 °C), warmest day 33.7 °C in August (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). Cold floor: -6.4 °C, which is the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at the typical cell (NASA POWER).

NASA POWER daily minima and maxima 1981–2024 at the typical cell, lapse-corrected to its elevation; CHELSA monthly means, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA. The cold floor is the figure named in its sentence. Not a measured survival limit for any plant in a pot.

Humidity

Relative humidity at the habitat: 55 to 58% across the year (monthly means, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). A figure about the air, saying nothing about how the plant takes water.

CHELSA relative humidity, median year across the envelope cells.

The figures the cards read from are in Climate below, and where they came from in Natural habitat.

Climate across the habitat

Habitat climate through the yearMean day from 14 °C in Jan to 34 °C in Aug; mean night from 4 °C in Jan to 24 °C in Jul. The cold quarter, Dec to Feb, is the three months around the coldest night. 872 mm of rain a year, most in May. The bands show the 10th to 90th percentile across 1071 habitat cells. Over 44 years at the typical cell the absolute minimum was -16.9 °C and the 99th-percentile day 42.8 °C; neither is dated to a month. Beneath: daily light integral and relative humidity through the year, each on its own scale.-20°-10°10°20°30°40°50°frost42.8° 99th-percentile day (undated)-16.9° lowest night in 44 yrs (undated)°C · day and nightcold quarter0255075100125150mm rainDLI 17–44RH 55–58 %JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
day night rain 10th–90th percentile across 1071 habitat cells cold quarter: the three months around the coldest night extremes over 44 years at the typical cell, marked at the edge: undated DLI, mol/m²/dayRH %each on its own scale
Figures by month
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Day °C14 / 5–1817 / 8–1921 / 13–2325 / 19–2728 / 23–3032 / 28–3334 / 31–3534 / 30–3530 / 26–3225 / 19–2719 / 12–2214 / 5–18
Night °C4 / -6–86 / -5–99 / -0–1214 / 6–1618 / 12–2022 / 17–2324 / 20–2524 / 19–2520 / 15–2215 / 8–1810 / 1–135 / -5–9
Rain mm42 / 14–7952 / 16–7770 / 33–9170 / 45–90112 / 73–136110 / 74–13467 / 50–10666 / 49–10278 / 52–10896 / 47–12560 / 22–9949 / 19–86
DLI19 / 16–2023 / 22–2529 / 28–3336 / 35–4038 / 37–4242 / 40–4444 / 41–4540 / 38–4133 / 32–3526 / 23–2720 / 16–2117 / 14–18
RH %57 / 54–5957 / 54–5956 / 52–5955 / 51–5858 / 54–6158 / 54–6155 / 52–6055 / 52–5955 / 53–5956 / 53–5857 / 53–5858 / 54–59

Each figure is the median across the 1071 grid cells holding the 1706 in-range records, with the 10th–90th percentile span across those cells after the slash where it differs. Extremes and elevation were read at the typical cell 1144:1652 (32.775, -97.375). Over 44 years there: absolute minimum -16.9 °C, 1st-percentile night -6.4 °C, 99th-percentile day 42.8 °C. Normals: CHELSA V2.1 1981–2010 climatology, 0.05° cells (each the mean of ~36 1 km pixels). Envelope: median and 10th–90th percentile of each month across the 1071 distinct grid cells holding the 1706 in-range records; extremes and elevation at the typical cell 1144:1652 (its coldest month's mean night nearest the median across cells); its position is the cell centre. Extremes: NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell 33.00_-97.500, lapse-corrected -71 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 183 m (cell mean).

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing: the climate was read across every in-range record's cell, not at the marker.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeColorado, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Texas, Arkansas, Mexico Northeast· introduced: Oregon, Wyoming, Illinois, Indiana, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Florida, Virginia
Kew's description“perennial” · “temperate”· quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Map marker30.641, -97.631 · in the densest population, 711 records (39% of those in range)
Evidence usedThe map marker and the climate envelope rest on all 1810 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 553 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 32 km away. 28 records outside the range (gardens, roadsides, misidentifications) ignored. 104 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km and stay on the map but off the climate.
The map markerthe map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 1810 in-range records; it decides nothing.

Photographs

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Photographs: (c) Linda Jo Conn, some rights reserved (CC BY) (7); (c) Cody Stricker, some rights reserved (CC BY).

Photographs: iNaturalist and Wikimedia Commons did not answer when this page was built; what is shown came from the sources that did.

Papers naming this species

Works whose title or abstract names Callirhoe involucrata, most cited first, from OpenAlex (CC0). A mention, not a cultivation source: nothing on this page is drawn from them.

PHYTOCHEMICAL STUDIES IN THE FAMILY MALVACEAE. I. COMPARISON OF ESSENTIAL OILS OF SIX SPECIES BY GAS‐LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY
A. C. Thompson, Barbara W. Hanny, Paul A. Hedin, R. C. Gueldner (1971) · American Journal of Botany
Indications of Susceptibility to Calonectria pseudonaviculata in Some Common Groundcovers and Boxwood Companion Plants
Patricia A. Richardson, Margery Daughtrey, Chuanxue Hong (2019) · Plant Disease
Phytochemical Studies in the Family Malvaceae. I. Comparison of Essential Oils of Six Species by Gas-liquid Chromatography
A. C. Thompson, Barbara W. Hanny, Paul A. Hedin, R. C. Gueldner (1971) · American Journal of Botany
Callirhoe involucrata
CABI (2017) · CABI Compendium
Propagation Protocol for Callirhoe involucrata
Dan Alberts, Randy Mandel (2004) · Native Plants Journal
Reproductive studies in the genus Callirhoe (Malvaceae)
Bonnie B. Amos (1981) · SHAREOK (University of Oklahoma; Oklahoma State University; Central Oklahoma University)
Catalogue of the Plants of Jasper County, Missouri. (Fernworts and Flowering Plants)
Ernest J Palmer (1916) · Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden
Callirhoe involucrata
(2024) · University Press of Kansas eBooks
Occurrence Download
GBIF.org User (2026) · Global Biodiversity Information Facility
Occurrence Download
GBIF.org User (2026) · Global Biodiversity Information Facility

Similar habitat climate the 6 species whose habitat climate is nearest this one's: mean day and night, month by month, and rain on a log scale, in calendar order, so a habitat with the same seasons six months out is far, not near. Nothing else counts: not range, not family.

History & registers

Where this page came from built 2026-09-20 · dossier v2 · node
gbif.species answeredcarried from build of 2026-09-20 (offline re-derivation; the backbone was not asked)
gbif.synonyms answeredcarried from build of 2026-09-20 (offline re-derivation; the backbone was not asked)
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wcvp.distribution answered
gbif.occurrences answeredGBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.3h4zam
climate answered
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Every upstream is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, or refused. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 52 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.