''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
Kansas () is a state in the Midwestern United States. Its capital is Topeka, and its largest city is Wichita. Kansas is a landlocked state bordered by Nebraska to the north; Missouri to the east; Oklahoma to the south; and Colorado to ...
,
Missouri
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, and
Oklahoma.
[''Callirhoe bushii''.]
Center for Plant Conservation. There are also some
introduced populations in
Iowa
Iowa () is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States, bordered by the Mississippi River to the east and the Missouri River and Big Sioux River to the west. It is bordered by six states: Wiscon ...
.
[''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 that ...
. In the wild it grows in woodlands and on
prairie
Prairies are ecosystems considered part of the temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands biome by ecologists, based on similar temperate climates, moderate rainfall, and a composition of grasses, herbs, and shrubs, rather than trees, as the ...
s, often on
calcareous
Calcareous () is an adjective meaning "mostly or partly composed of calcium carbonate", in other words, containing lime or being chalky. The term is used in a wide variety of scientific disciplines.
In zoology
''Calcareous'' is used as an a ...
soils. It is associated with ''
Verbesina helianthoides'', ''
Campanula americana'', ''
Ampelopsis cordata
''Ampelopsis cordata'', commonly called heartleaf peppervine, heart-leaf peppervine, or heart leaf peppervine, is a vine found in the U.S. states Alabama, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentuck ...
'', ''
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 family Bignoniaceae, native to the eastern United States, ...
'', ''
Cassia'' sp., ''
Melilotus alba
''Melilotus albus'', known as honey clover, white melilot (UK), Bokhara clover (Australia), white sweetclover (USA), and sweet clover, is a nitrogen-fixing legume in the family Fabaceae. ''Melilotus albus'' is considered a valuable honey plant ...
'', ''
Rudbeckia triloba
''Rudbeckia triloba'', the browneyed or brown-eyed susan, thin-leaved coneflower or three-leaved coneflower, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae with numerous, yellow, daisy-like flowers. It is native to the central and easte ...
'', ''
Polymnia canadensis'', ''
Smilax
''Smilax'' is a genus of about 300–350 species, found in the tropics and subtropics worldwide. In China for example about 80 are found (39 of which are endemic), while there are 20 in North America north of Mexico. They are climbing flow ...
'' 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 roam around and consume wild vegetations in order to convert the otherwise indigestible (by human gut) cellulose within grass and other ...
and cropland. The plant can tolerate some disturbance, but not the destruction of habitat.[
]
References
bushii
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