Flower ID: This is a large blossom that I photographed last Sunday in the mountains. Anyhow, are wildflower guide books are locked up in our camping trailer which is in storage. Trying...

jederick Loc: Northern Utah

This is a large blossom that I photographed last Sunday in the mountains. Anyhow, are wildflower guide books are locked up in our camping trailer which is in storage. Trying to ID and am not sure of its ID...anyone know?

Thanks in advance.

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Sylvias Loc: North Yorkshire England

Pretty flower and colour jederick, I think it's called Hibiscus. :D

Blenheim Orange Loc: Michigan

jederick wrote:

This is a large blossom that I photographed last Sunday in the mountains. Anyhow, are wildflower guide books are locked up in our camping trailer which is in storage. Trying to ID and am not sure of its ID...anyone know?

Thanks in advance.

Definitely from the Hibiscus genus, and no doubt a nursery industry cultivar. There are hundreds of cultivars being sold.

Hibiscus martianus -Heartleaf rosemallow - is the only native it could be, but the foliage doesn't look right for that.

If you saw the plant "in the wild" it could be a garden escape.

Mike

FrodoBaggins Loc: Texas

I have several Mallows and this color is a beauty! Definitely a mallow. Looks a bit like Althea but as usual I'm probably off on the specific ID

Blenheim Orange Loc: Michigan

FrodoBaggins wrote:

I have several Mallows and this color is a beauty! Definitely a mallow. Looks a bit like Althea but as usual I'm probably off on the specific ID

There is a lot of confusion that derives from the common name "mallow." The name can refer to the Malvaceae family of plants, which contains 13 genera, including the Hibiscus genus, or in common usage to various individual species.

The answer to the question - "is it a Hibiscus or a Mallow?" - about this particular flower is "yes."

Mike

J. R. WEEMS Loc: Winchester, Virginia

Blenheim Orange wrote:

Definitely from the Hibiscus genus, and no doubt a nursery industry cultivar. There are hundreds of cultivars being sold.

Hibiscus martianus -Heartleaf rosemallow - is the only native it could be, but the foliage doesn't look right for that.

If you saw the plant "in the wild" it could be a garden escape.

Mike

Mike-- quite correct-- also, many such plants, and other, survive long after a homestead has given it up to time. I have found more than one such case. Funny, people say, well that couldn't have been wild-- they are. :) Nice shot. :)

jederick Loc: Northern Utah

Thanks everyone for helping with this flower ID.

Here is what puzzled me...I'm familiar with a flowering hibiscus bush but these were just three small "clumps" of flowers. There was no hibiscus scrub/bush anywhere in the vicinity. These were just volunteer scrubs and their flowers were more flat than the bell (sorta) shape of the hibiscus. Here is a photo of one clump to help explain my confusion!

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Blenheim Orange Loc: Michigan

jederick wrote:

Thanks everyone for helping with this flower ID.

Here is what puzzled me...I'm familiar with a flowering hibiscus bush but these were just three small "clumps" of flowers. There was no hibiscus scrub/bush anywhere in the vicinity. These were just volunteer scrubs and their flowers were more flat than the bell (sorta) shape of the hibiscus. Here is a photo of one clump to help explain my confusion!

Not all hibiscus are shrubs or bushes. The genus includes annual and perennial herbaceous plants, and the common native species in North America are herbaceous plants. The most popular garden hibiscus species are called "Rose of Sharon," a name which is applied to Hypericum calycinum, which is native to southeast Europe and southwest Asia, and Hibiscus syriacus, native to east Asia. They are both shrubs. There are quite a few cultivars of herbaceous hibiscus species in the nursery trade in North America, as well, some from native species, some not.

Mike

Blenheim Orange Loc: Michigan

J. R. WEEMS wrote:

Mike-- quite correct-- also, many such plants, and other, survive long after a homestead has given it up to time. I have found more than one such case. Funny, people say, well that couldn't have been wild-- they are. :) Nice shot. :)

Good point. I can always tell where a farmhouse once stood, because of the fruit trees, the berry patch, and a few garden flowers.

Mike

jederick Loc: Northern Utah

Blenheim Orange wrote:

Not all hibiscus are shrubs or bushes. The genus i... (show quote)

Mike many thanks for your detailed explanations. We always enjoy looking and photographing flowers when traveling but frequently misidentify them. More and more I'm finding this to be the case!:-D :-D

ebbote Loc: Hockley, Texas

Great shot Jederick.

jederick Loc: Northern Utah

ebbote wrote:

Great shot Jederick.

Thanks Earnest...glad you came by for a look!

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Blenheim Orange Loc: Michigan

jederick wrote:

Mike many thanks for your detailed explanations. We always enjoy looking and photographing flowers when traveling but frequently misidentify them. More and more I'm finding this to be the case!:-D :-D

Very good. There are so many that it is near impossible for any one person to avoid making mistakes in identification.

Mike

burns Loc: Southern Idaho

Not sure where you are in northern Ut, but they would be available at any garden center as a perennial "hardy hibiscus"

Cynlane55 Loc: Las Vegas Nv.

jederick, Great pics. Beautiful Hollyhocks, I've never seen them grow in the wild before. My grandparents used to grow them, they come in a verity of colors. I still have some seeds HEHE, I'm Cynlane55 new to the chat. Been looking at everyones photos sence 2010 thanks everyone I just love them.