''Callirhoe bushii'' is a species of flowering plant in the
mallow family known by the common name Bush's poppy-mallow. It is native to the United States, where it can be found in
Arkansas
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,
Kansas
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,
Missouri
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, and
Oklahoma
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.
[''Callirhoe bushii''.]
Center for Plant Conservation. There are also some
introduced populations in
Iowa
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.
[''Callirhoe bushii''.]
The Nature Conservancy.
This plant was first described in 1909 and named for the botanist
Benjamin Franklin Bush. It produces poppy-like magenta flowers. It is commonly grown as an
ornamental plant
Ornamental plants or ''garden plants'' are plants that are primarily grown for their beauty but also for qualities such as scent or how they shape physical space. Many flowering plants and garden varieties tend to be specially bred cultivars th ...
. In the wild it grows in woodlands and on
prairie
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s, often on
calcareous
Calcareous () is an adjective meaning "mostly or partly composed of calcium carbonate", in other words, containing lime (mineral), lime or being chalky. The term is used in a wide variety of Science, scientific disciplines.
In zoology
''Calcare ...
soils. It is associated with ''
Verbesina helianthoides
''Verbesina helianthoides'', commonly called yellow crownbeard
Illinois Wildflowers
'', ''
Campanula americana'', ''
Ampelopsis cordata'', ''
Campsis radicans
''Campsis radicans'', the trumpet vine, yellow trumpet vine, or trumpet creeper (also known in North America as cow-itch vine or hummingbird vine), is a species of flowering plant in the trumpet vine family Bignoniaceae, native to eastern North ...
'', ''
Cassia'' sp., ''
Melilotus alba'', ''
Rudbeckia triloba'', ''
Polymnia canadensis'', ''
Smilax
''Smilax'' is a genus of about 300–350 species, found in the tropics and subtropics worldwide. They are climbing flowering plants, many of which are woody and/or thorny, in the monocotyledon family (biology), family Smilacaceae, native through ...
'' sp., and ''
Clematis virginiana''
[
There are 49 known occurrences, the largest containing hundreds of individuals. Most populations, however, have fewer than 50 plants. The species is threatened by habitat loss during development and urbanization. Habitat is also being consumed for ]grazing
In agriculture, grazing is a method of animal husbandry whereby domestic livestock are allowed outdoors to free range (roam around) and consume wild vegetations in order to feed conversion ratio, convert the otherwise indigestible (by human diges ...
and cropland. The plant can tolerate some disturbance, but not the destruction of habitat.[
]
References
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