Wine Loving Cup Is Callirhoe Involucrata (Malvaceae)
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Winecup is a depression growing, sprawling, groundcover that has gorgeous flowers that closed each evening.
They bloom generously inwards the belatedly saltation together with and thence disappear during the oestrus of the summertime months.
Most advice says they prefer total Sun exactly you lot tin encounter from their planting, piece of job shade tin also work.
They similar soil that drains good together with tin fifty-fifty relish sandy or gravelly soil for that reason. Try inwards rock gardens, at the border borders, equally the spiller inwards wooden barrels, hanging baskets, together with for meadow plantings.
Pruning the trailers when summertime hits volition attention encourage autumn flowering.
Fine Gardening adds that they are mutual frigidity hardy inwards zones 4,5,6.
The flowers render nectar for beneficial insects together with butterflies. One butterfly, the Gray Hairstreak, raises its caterpillars on the leaves of Wine Cup.
Check out Missouri Botanical Garden article most butterfly gardening here. That photograph is Wine Cups blooming at the same fourth dimension equally tropical milkweed. Unlikely timing exactly perhaps they made it happen!