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Definition of Rose mallow
1. Noun. Showy shrub of salt marshes of the eastern United States having large rose-colored flowers.
Generic synonyms: Hibiscus
2. Noun. Plant with terminal racemes of showy white to pink or purple flowers; the English cottage garden hollyhock.
Group relationships: Alcea, Genus Alcea
Generic synonyms: Hollyhock
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rose Mallow
Literary usage of Rose mallow
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Nature's Garden: An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect by Neltje Blanchan (1907)
"Only its cousin the hollyhock, a native of China, can vie with the rose-mallow's
decorative splendor among the shrubbery; and the Rose of China (Hibiscus ..."
2. The Mysteries of the Flowers by Herbert Waldron Faulkner (1917)
"SWAMP ROSE-MALLOW—Hibiscus moscheutos August-Sept. The swamp rose-mallow shows
us another fine example of this mode of making sure that the stigmas shall ..."
3. Wild Flowers Worth Knowing by Neltje Blanchan, Asa Don Dickinson (1917)
"MALLOW FAMILY (Malvaceae) Swamp Rose-mallow; Mallow Rose Hibiscus Moscheutos
Flowers—Very large, clear rose pink, sometimes white, often with crimson centre ..."
4. Report Upon Cotton Insects: Prepared Under the Direction of the Commissioner by John Henry Comstock (1879)
"Mr. French also records the fact of finding what he considered to be the boll-worm
in the pods of Hibiscus grandiflorus, the large flowered rose mallow. ..."
5. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord. Britton, Hon. Addison. Brown (1913)
"Velvety Rose- Mallow. Fig. 2871. Hibiscus incanus Wendl. Bot. Beob. 54. 1798.
broadly lanceolate, 4'-7' long, acuminate at the apex, Perennial, erect, ..."
6. Flora of Pennsylvania by Thomas Conrad Porter (1903)
"HALBERD-LEAVED ROSE-MALLOW. (Man. p. 623; IF f. 2436. ) Along rivers, southern Pa.
to Fla., Minn., Nev. and La.—Pennsylvania : LANCASTER, Safe Harbor ..."
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