Winecup
Callirhoe involucrataWinecup is a perennial native to the Texas Hill Country that grows 0.5–1 ft tall and 4–5 ft wide. It wants full sun or part shade and low water, and handles clay soil. Blooms red in mid spring. Good for butterflies.
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From our guide
Village of the HillsTrailing perennial with deeply cut leaves and cup-shaped magenta flowers that close at night.
Why it works here
Excellent living groundcover between shrubs, and a larval host. Goes dormant in summer heat without supplemental water, which is a feature.
Watch out
Disappears in mid-summer. Plant it where the gap will not read as a hole.
The facts
6 sources- Type
- Perennial
- Sun
- Full sun to part shade (3+ hrs)
- Water
- Low
- Height
- 0.5–1 ft
- Spread
- 4–5 ft
- Bloom
- Mid Spring · red
- Foliage
- Deciduous
- Soil
- Takes clay · recorded on calcareous, clay, dry, gravelly, loam, moist, sand, well drained
- Deer
- Moderate — deer may browse it, especially new growth. Sometimes browsed
- Wildlife
- Supports butterflies
Where it grows
Recorded in these EPA Level IV ecoregions in the Austin and Hill Country launch area:
1,830 occurrence records in Central Texas (GBIF).
Can you buy it?
In the Village of the Hills guide, but not on the grower stock lists we read yet. Ask a native-plant nursery.
also grows from seed It starts readily from seed, so a packet from a native-seed supplier, or seed collected with permission, is often the easiest way to get a plant no nursery pots.