Halberd Leaved Swamp Mallow, Soldier Rose Mallow

Halberd Leaved Swamp Mallow, Soldier Rose Mallow
Hibiscus laevis, is Native to Texas and other States.

We live on Lake Fork, that is near Tyler Texas, there is one in the back flower bed that was here when they built the house in 1995-It bl...Read Moreooms every year. These also grow wild in the Mississippi Delta, you can see them all along the highway, and in the cotton fields--

I have moved 2 of these plant into my garden. Where I live they have pulled the lake down I mean way down and I found tow one branched p...Read Morelants where they will not live when the water comes back up do I transplanted them into my garden. One is the white and the other is pink. The pink was ever so light almost white and with the change in soil I guess it now has a very strong pink color. The e=white has took off and is actually is a plant now. It is not really attractive as something has been eating the leaves but I feel sure it will come right back out. The 7 foot tall plant is beside my dock and it is ever faithful every year we can expect to pass by the pretty flowers.

Hibiscus laevis is a widely distributed native species "endemic" to the Mississippi and Ohio River valley drainages; especially common in...Read More riverine areas of Texas and Louisianna but ranging up the Miss. valley to Illinois and eastward into Michigan. Colors range from white to deep pink, usually with small red eyespots and somewhat to very tight, tubular calyx and large, round, very fuzzy seeds. Leaves very dimorphic across different populations; H. dasycalyx, a Texas endemic species, is similar to H. laevis, but has extremely hairy calyces and frequently fuzzy pods, whereas H. laevis populations are hairless (all organs, including leaves).