Palm-leaf Marshmallow, Hemp-leaved Hollyhock

I have only observed this in the new Piet Oudolf border at the New York Botanic Garden, but I was impressed by its slender refinement. ...Read Morer />
Both flowers and foliage are small and elegant, on a big shrub-sized plant. The stems are slender and wiry but strong and self-supporting, and support the leaves and flowers almost invisibly. The whole plant has a see-through quality, and I suspect it would look good as a scrim plant toward the front of a deep mixed border.

The flowers are self-cleaning, and the foliage is clean and unblemished. As the name suggests, the deeply cleft leaves do look a bit like cannabis.

I'm eager to try using this in a garden.

I wouldn't space these closer than 3'.

This species doesn't get the rust diseases that afflict most of the genus.