These usually start blooming in June, so it’s a little ahead.
It appears to be a Hibiscus laevis, halberdleaf rose-mallow or scarlet rose mallow.
Here are flowers from nearby plants a year ago, and a year before that.
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These usually start blooming in June, so it’s a little ahead.
It appears to be a Hibiscus laevis, halberdleaf rose-mallow or scarlet rose mallow.
Here are flowers from nearby plants a year ago, and a year before that.
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Some wild hibiscus, summer of 2022.
This is Yellow Dog’s rosemallow, the last one she saw, a year before.
Yellow Dog’s rosemallow, six petals, 2022-06-21
This year it has six petals.
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Didn’t know there was one on that path.
Also known as Halberdleaf rosemallow, Hibiscus laevis All. It’s a forb that grows all over the eastern U.S. and in Ontario. I’ve got one in a pot here on my front porch that I dug up to get it out of the next path mowing. No, they don’t have much of an odor. Yes, they are five-lobed flowers, and they do seem to like disturbed soil. The ones I have are not in a swamp; they’re in upland woods.
This Hibiscus laevis All. we saw June 19th 2016 is on a different stalk than the one of May 30th. Continue reading