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Alcea rosea, the common hollyhock, is an ornamental dicot flowering plant in the family Malvaceae. It was imported into Europe from southwestern China during, or possibly before, the 15th century. [ 2 ]
Alcea is a genus of over 80 species of flowering plants in the mallow family Malvaceae, commonly known as the hollyhocks. [1] They are native to Asia and Europe. [ 1 ] The single species of hollyhock from the Americas, the streambank wild hollyhock , belongs to a different genus.
Malva alcea (greater musk-mallow, cut-leaved mallow, vervain mallow or hollyhock mallow) is a plant in the mallow family native to southwestern, central and eastern Europe and southwestern Asia, from Spain north to southern Sweden and east to Russia and Turkey.
Alcea rugosa, the Russian hollyhock, is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae. It is native to Ukraine, Crimea, south European Russia, and the Caucasus, and has been introduced as a garden escapee into Wisconsin and Maryland in the United States. [1] It is resistant to Puccinia malvacearum rust, and hardy to USDA zone 4. [2]
A medium to tall (up to 3 m), hairy hollyhock with large, pinkish, or pale flowers (petals to 50 mm). The leaves (particularly upper ones) are distinctively divided into spreading finger-like lobes whose edges are irregular and at times sublobed, the lobes at the base of the leaf tending to point rather backward.
Malva multiflora (previously known as Lavatera cretica) is a species of flowering plant in the mallow family known by the common names Cornish mallow and Cretan hollyhock.It is native to western Europe, North Africa, and the Mediterranean Basin, and it is naturalized in areas with a Mediterranean climate, such as parts of Australia, South Africa, and California.
A medium-sized (to 0.8 m) hollyhock with narrow stem (to 10 mm), notable for its 5-7-lobed stem leaves having end lobes very long, rather finger-like with rounded tip, compared to the shorter side lobes (base leaves however are shallow-lobed), the pink or white flowers not large (petals to 30 mm), pale at centre, in groups of 1–2 at leaf stalks.
Alcea setosa, the bristly hollyhock, [2] is an ornamental plant in the family Malvaceae. The bristly hollyhock is native to the Levant: ranging from Crete, Turkey, Lebanon and Syria to the botanical region of Palestine (including Israel and Jordan). [1] The part above ground of the plant withers and dies in the summer.