While visiting friends in N Texas about 20 years ago I saw these in bloom everywhere, and couldn't resist. I 'Saved' a couple of them from a grader ditch and brought them to SE PA (both were typical wine purple callirhoe involucrata or so I thought). These were perfectly hardy and completely at home here, which in itself, amazed me.

3-4 years later I started getting pink seedlings. Neat!!

3-4 more years And I started getting white seedlings. Even neater!!

Now after about 20 years I have 6 main types of these:

Wine, pink, and white.

Red styles and white styles.

The 6 are all combinations of the color and style color.

Ratios suggest a non dominant color gene which is dilute (pink) in heterozygous material and a recessive gene for style color (1 to 4).

Goes anyone have any info on these,? Is it possible these are not species C. involucrata, but a hybrid with one of the other species? I love them, but still want to solve this mystery.