Hairy rose mallow (Hibiscus lasiocarpos) is blooming this week near lakes, ponds, sloughs, streams, and wet lowlands. One of the largest native Missouri wildflowers, these ornate blooms attract ...

Few plants bring the tropical feel like a hibiscus. They are planted in tropical climates across the world and are the state flower of Hawaii. That's why it may come as a surprise that some, like the ...

Well, it kind of depends on the hibiscus we’re talking about. There are three common ones people grow. The first is Chinese hibiscus (Hibiscus chinensis). This is the tropical type you see in Hawaii ...

Surprise! What are those spectacular pink, red and white flowers, the size of salad plates, unfolding in the late summer garden? Don’t they belong on a balmy Pacific island? Those are the blooms of ...

Their colorful flowers can be as big as dinner plates. Fact checked by Elizabeth Berry Large funnel-shaped hardy hibiscus ...

An almost tropical-looking pink flower in the hibiscus family grows tall at the edge of a wetland in the Cook County forest preserves near Palos Park. The flower, a swamp rose mallow, is a rare sight ...

There are hundreds of types of hibiscus with sizes and colors so varied it would take a lifetime to collect them all. The name of this gorgeous flowering plant comes from the ancient Greek word ...

Hibiscus belongs to the mallow family, along with its cousins althea, cotton, hollyhock, okra and Turk’s cap. One group within the genus Hibiscus immediately attracts attention with the size of each ...

On a warm, humid August morning I followed Richard Primack, a biology professor and plant ecologist at Boston University, down a steep, brushy trail, then across a flat muddy area adjacent to the ...

With bold white trumpet-shaped blooms, crimson-eyed rose-mallow positively glows on wetland edges this time of year. The showy blooms, 4 to 7 inches across, can dominate a landscape in pink or white.