MALLOW FAMILY. Malvaceae. 



Swamp Rose= 

 mallow 



Hibiscus 

 Moscheutos 

 Pale pink or 

 white 

 August- 

 September 



A tall perennial with stout shrublike 

 stems and large showy flowers. The leaves 

 olive green, bright above and densely 

 white woolly beneath ; ovate pointed and 

 indistinctly toothed, with long stalks ; the 

 lower leaves three-lobed. Flowers 4-6 

 inches across, with five broad petals con- 

 spicuously veined, pale crimson-pink or 

 white, with or without a crimson base. The flowers are 

 borne singly or in scant clusters ; they show a strong 

 family resemblance to the hollyhock. 4-6 feet high. 

 The most frequent visitors of the genus Hibiscus are the 

 honeybees and bumblebees. In marshes near the coast, 

 and in brackish water near saline springs in the interior, 

 from eastern Mass., south, and west to 111. and Mo., 

 especially near the shores of lakes. 



A similar but smooth species with the 

 same period of bloom. The upper leaves 

 often halberd-shaped, i. e., like an arrow- 

 head with conspicuous flanges, the lower 

 also halberd-shaped or plainly three-lobed. 

 The flowers flesh pink, sometimes with a 

 dark magenta centre ; 2-3 inches broad. 

 Stem 2-5 feet high. On the banks of rivers and small 

 streams from Pa., south, and west to Minn, and Neb. 



A species adventive from southern Eu- 

 rope, with a singular and beautiful 

 inflated calyx, resembling spun glass, five- 

 angled, roundish, and hairy. An annual 

 often escaping from gardens, with hand- 

 some, large pure yellow, or sulphur-col- 

 ored flowers, with a black-purplish centre, that quickly 

 fade ; hence called Flower-of-an-hour. The leaves deeply 

 cut, with 3-7 lobes. 1-2 feet high. Near dwellings from 

 New Eng., south, and west to Neb. 



A handsome southern species, with 

 Hibiscus large, deep red-scariet flowers over six 



Rediscarlet inches broad ' and dee V l Y cleft leaves. 

 Common in cultivation. 4-7 feet high. 

 In deep marshes near the coast from S. Car. , south. 



Halberd- 

 leaved Rose- 

 mallow 



Hibiscus 

 militaris 

 Flesh pink 

 color 



Bladder 

 Ketmia 



Hibiscus 

 Trionum 

 Sulphur 

 yellow 



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