MALLOW FAMILY. Malvaceas. 



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 w^ater 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 

 large, deep red-scar let flowers over six 

 inches broad, and deeply cleft leaves. 

 Common in cultivation. 4-7 feet high. 

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



Halberd- 

 leaved Rose- 

 mallow 



Hibiscus 

 )iiilifaris 

 Flesh pink 

 color 



Bladder 

 Ketmia 



Hibiscus 

 Trionum 

 Sulphur 

 yellow 



Hibiscus 



coccineus 



Red=scarlet 



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