'Hairy Rosa Mallow' or 'Rose-Mallow' or 'Swamp Mallow'
Here is a tall, showy native wildflower with large, 6 inch wide flowers. The flowers are a rosy-pink color with wine-red colored centers. The large heart-shaped leaves are attractive too. Plants bloom in late summer and a few plants will have white flowers with wine-red centers. They grow best in moist, humus-rich soil in full sun to light shade, reaching a height from 3 to 6 feet. Useful along banks of streams and moist areas or used in the perennial garden as a center point in for a late season display. If the plants are cut back in late spring they will produce shorter plants with larger flowers. Native from central eastern, and south eastern USA and California ( were it was named H. californicus )This species is a food source for the Automeris io moth.
Zones 4-9.
50 seeds
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