Chinese Hibiscus
Scientific Name:Hibiscus rosa-sinensis


NOTES: Tropical shrub, the photographed specimen growing potted in front of the "Groesbeck Estate."

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Chinese Hibiscus
Genus species: Hibiscus rosa-sinensis
Common Name: Chinese Hibiscus
Family Name: Malvaceae  
Annual and perennial herbs, or shrubs; leaves alternate, simple, often palmately veined, stipulate; flowers bisexual, regular, mostly solitary or clustered in leaf axils; fruit a capsule, sometimes splitting into mericarps.
Seed Type: Angiosperm
Origin:  
Native: native to North America.
Non-native: not native to North America.
Introduced Native: native to North
America, but not Rowe Woods.
* Definitions based on the USDA
terminology
Nonnative
Category:Wildflower
Flower Color:Yellow
Pink/Red
Identified by:J.D. Mancini
Months in Bloom:  
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