- Description:
Sprawling stems spread in all directions. Leaves are variable, sometimes triangular with
scalloped edges but often deeply lobed. The five-petaled flowers are cup-shaped and white
to pink.
- Comments: Callirhoe
is from the Greek meaning, “beautiful,” and is the name of an ocean nymph in
Greek mythology. Cotton, hollyhocks and okra belong to the same family. The deep, thick
taproot of the closely related Purple Poppy-mallow has long been cooked and eaten as a
vegetable. Mallows are food plants for the larvae of the gray hairstreak butterfly. Pale
Poppy-mallow is common in the eastern half of Kansas on open prairies.
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