Index / Search / Hibiscus moscheutos
§1 Plant
Hibiscus moscheutos L.
vernacular crimsoneyed rosemallow — species · Malvaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb, Subshrub
- Duration
- Annual, Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Malvaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Hibiscus
§2a
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Native
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 682 counties across 29 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- None
- Shade
- High
- Moisture use
- High
- Fire
- Low
- Salinity
- Low
- Anaerobic
- High
- CaCO₃
- Medium
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -13 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 160 min.
- Precipitation
- 35–65 in/yr
- pH range
- 4–7.5
- Root depth
- 10 in min.
- Fertility need
- Medium
- Soil texture
- medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Multiple Stem
- Growth rate
- Rapid
- Lifespan
- Moderate
- Mature height
- 6.6 ft
- Foliage texture
- Coarse
- Foliage colour
- Gray-Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Moderate
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- White
- Fruit colour
- Brown
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Summer
- Seed abundance
- Low
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Fall
- Spread rate
- Slow
- Stratify
- No
- Seeds / lb
- 200,000
- Propagation
- seed, container
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Routinely Available
- Nursery stock
- No
- Browse palatability
- Low
- Graze palatability
- Low
- Palatable, human
- No
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 682 counties across 29 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 20 N ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Delaware view state ↗ 1 N ▾
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Florida view state ↗ 20 N ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 27 N ▾
- Burke 13033
- Camden 13039
- Catoosa 13047
- Chatham 13051
- Cherokee 13057
- Clinch 13065
- Columbia 13073
- Echols 13101
- Elbert 13105
- Glynn 13127
- Greene 13133
- Henry 13151
- Houston 13153
- Jackson 13157
- Jasper 13159
- Jefferson 13163
- Lee 13177
- Liberty 13179
- Lowndes 13185
- McIntosh 13191
- Meriwether 13199
- Mitchell 13205
- Monroe 13207
- Muscogee 13215
- Richmond 13245
- Taliaferro 13265
- Worth 13321
Illinois view state ↗ 40 N ▾
- Alexander 17003
- Clay 17025
- Clinton 17027
- Cook 17031
- Crawford 17033
- Douglas 17041
- Edgar 17045
- Edwards 17047
- Franklin 17055
- Gallatin 17059
- Greene 17061
- Hamilton 17065
- Jackson 17077
- Jasper 17079
- Johnson 17087
- Kane 17089
- Knox 17095
- LaSalle 17099
- Lawrence 17101
- Macoupin 17117
- Madison 17119
- Marion 17121
- Massac 17127
- McLean 17113
- Monroe 17133
- Perry 17145
- Pope 17151
- Pulaski 17153
- Randolph 17157
- Richland 17159
- Saline 17165
- Scott 17171
- St. Clair 17163
- Union 17181
- Wabash 17185
- Washington 17189
- Wayne 17191
- White 17193
- Will 17197
- Williamson 17199
Indiana view state ↗ 29 N ▾
- Clark 18019
- Crawford 18025
- Daviess 18027
- Dubois 18037
- Elkhart 18039
- Floyd 18043
- Fountain 18045
- Fulton 18049
- Gibson 18051
- Greene 18055
- Harrison 18061
- Jefferson 18077
- Knox 18083
- Kosciusko 18085
- Lawrence 18093
- Marshall 18099
- Monroe 18105
- Noble 18113
- Orange 18117
- Parke 18121
- Porter 18127
- Posey 18129
- Spencer 18147
- Starke 18149
- Sullivan 18153
- Vanderburgh 18163
- Vigo 18167
- Wabash 18169
- White 18181
Kansas view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 47 N ▾
- Adair 21001
- Ballard 21007
- Barren 21009
- Bath 21011
- Bourbon 21017
- Bracken 21023
- Bullitt 21029
- Calloway 21035
- Carter 21043
- Casey 21045
- Christian 21047
- Clark 21049
- Daviess 21059
- Edmonson 21061
- Estill 21065
- Fayette 21067
- Floyd 21071
- Franklin 21073
- Fulton 21075
- Graves 21083
- Hardin 21093
- Harrison 21097
- Hart 21099
- Henderson 21101
- Henry 21103
- Hickman 21105
- Hopkins 21107
- Jefferson 21111
- Johnson 21115
- Laurel 21125
- Lewis 21135
- Madison 21151
- Marshall 21157
- McCracken 21145
- McCreary 21147
- McLean 21149
- Metcalfe 21169
- Montgomery 21173
- Muhlenberg 21177
- Powell 21197
- Pulaski 21199
- Rockcastle 21203
- Rowan 21205
- Todd 21219
- Webster 21233
- Whitley 21235
- Woodford 21239
Louisiana view state ↗ 61 N ▾
- Acadia 22001
- Allen 22003
- Ascension 22005
- Avoyelles 22009
- Beauregard 22011
- Bienville 22013
- Bossier 22015
- Caddo 22017
- Calcasieu 22019
- Caldwell 22021
- Cameron 22023
- Catahoula 22025
- Claiborne 22027
- Concordia 22029
- De Soto 22031
- East Baton Rouge 22033
- East Carroll 22035
- East Feliciana 22037
- Evangeline 22039
- Franklin 22041
- Grant 22043
- Iberia 22045
- Iberville 22047
- Jackson 22049
- Jefferson 22051
- Jefferson Davis 22053
- Lafayette 22055
- Lafourche 22057
- LaSalle 22059
- Lincoln 22061
- Livingston 22063
- Madison 22065
- Morehouse 22067
- Natchitoches 22069
- Orleans 22071
- Ouachita 22073
- Plaquemines 22075
- Pointe Coupee 22077
- Rapides 22079
- Red River 22081
- Richland 22083
- Sabine 22085
- St. Bernard 22087
- St. Charles 22089
- St. Helena 22091
- St. James 22093
- St. John the Baptist 22095
- St. Landry 22097
- St. Martin 22099
- St. Mary 22101
- St. Tammany 22103
- Tangipahoa 22105
- Tensas 22107
- Terrebonne 22109
- Union 22111
- Vermilion 22113
- Vernon 22115
- Webster 22119
- West Carroll 22123
- West Feliciana 22125
- Winn 22127
Massachusetts view state ↗ 9 N ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 9 N ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 27 N ▾
- Bolivar 28011
- Choctaw 28019
- Clarke 28023
- DeSoto 28033
- Hancock 28045
- Harrison 28047
- Hinds 28049
- Holmes 28051
- Humphreys 28053
- Itawamba 28057
- Jackson 28059
- Jefferson Davis 28065
- Lawrence 28077
- Leflore 28083
- Madison 28089
- Marion 28091
- Marshall 28093
- Panola 28107
- Pearl River 28109
- Pike 28113
- Quitman 28119
- Scott 28123
- Sharkey 28125
- Tunica 28143
- Warren 28149
- Washington 28151
- Yazoo 28163
Missouri view state ↗ 47 N ▾
- Bollinger 29017
- Butler 29023
- Cape Girardeau 29031
- Cedar 29039
- Crawford 29055
- Dent 29065
- Dunklin 29069
- Franklin 29071
- Gasconade 29073
- Hickory 29085
- Howell 29091
- Jackson 29095
- Jasper 29097
- Jefferson 29099
- Laclede 29105
- Lawrence 29109
- Lincoln 29113
- Madison 29123
- Mississippi 29133
- Monroe 29137
- Montgomery 29139
- Morgan 29141
- New Madrid 29143
- Newton 29145
- Oregon 29149
- Osage 29151
- Ozark 29153
- Pemiscot 29155
- Perry 29157
- Phelps 29161
- Platte 29165
- Polk 29167
- Pulaski 29169
- Randolph 29175
- Reynolds 29179
- Ripley 29181
- Scott 29201
- Shannon 29203
- St. Charles 29183
- St. Clair 29185
- St. Louis 29189
- Ste. Genevieve 29186
- Stoddard 29207
- Taney 29213
- Texas 29215
- Wayne 29223
- Wright 29229
New Jersey view state ↗ 18 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 18 N ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 67 N ▾
- Alamance 37001
- Anson 37007
- Beaufort 37013
- Bertie 37015
- Bladen 37017
- Brunswick 37019
- Buncombe 37021
- Cabarrus 37025
- Caldwell 37027
- Camden 37029
- Carteret 37031
- Caswell 37033
- Chatham 37037
- Cherokee 37039
- Chowan 37041
- Craven 37049
- Cumberland 37051
- Currituck 37053
- Dare 37055
- Davidson 37057
- Durham 37063
- Edgecombe 37065
- Forsyth 37067
- Franklin 37069
- Gaston 37071
- Gates 37073
- Granville 37077
- Greene 37079
- Guilford 37081
- Halifax 37083
- Harnett 37085
- Haywood 37087
- Hertford 37091
- Hyde 37095
- Iredell 37097
- Johnston 37101
- Jones 37103
- Lee 37105
- Lenoir 37107
- Mecklenburg 37119
- Montgomery 37123
- Moore 37125
- Nash 37127
- New Hanover 37129
- Northampton 37131
- Pamlico 37137
- Pasquotank 37139
- Perquimans 37143
- Person 37145
- Pitt 37147
- Richmond 37153
- Robeson 37155
- Rockingham 37157
- Rowan 37159
- Sampson 37163
- Scotland 37165
- Stanly 37167
- Swain 37173
- Tyrrell 37177
- Vance 37181
- Wake 37183
- Warren 37185
- Washington 37187
- Wayne 37191
- Wilson 37195
- Yadkin 37197
- Yancey 37199
Ohio view state ↗ 39 N ▾
- Ashtabula 39007
- Butler 39017
- Carroll 39019
- Coshocton 39031
- Cuyahoga 39035
- Erie 39043
- Fairfield 39045
- Gallia 39053
- Geauga 39055
- Guernsey 39059
- Henry 39069
- Highland 39071
- Holmes 39075
- Jackson 39079
- Lake 39085
- Lawrence 39087
- Licking 39089
- Lorain 39093
- Lucas 39095
- Mahoning 39099
- Monroe 39111
- Morgan 39115
- Muskingum 39119
- Ottawa 39123
- Perry 39127
- Pickaway 39129
- Pike 39131
- Richland 39139
- Ross 39141
- Sandusky 39143
- Scioto 39145
- Seneca 39147
- Stark 39151
- Summit 39153
- Trumbull 39155
- Tuscarawas 39157
- Vinton 39163
- Warren 39165
- Washington 39167
Oklahoma view state ↗ 7 N ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 12 N ▾
Rhode Island view state ↗ 3 N ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 34 N ▾
- Allendale 45005
- Anderson 45007
- Bamberg 45009
- Beaufort 45013
- Berkeley 45015
- Calhoun 45017
- Cherokee 45021
- Chester 45023
- Clarendon 45027
- Colleton 45029
- Darlington 45031
- Dorchester 45035
- Edgefield 45037
- Fairfield 45039
- Florence 45041
- Georgetown 45043
- Greenville 45045
- Hampton 45049
- Horry 45051
- Jasper 45053
- Lancaster 45057
- Lee 45061
- Lexington 45063
- Marion 45067
- McCormick 45065
- Newberry 45071
- Orangeburg 45075
- Pickens 45077
- Richland 45079
- Spartanburg 45083
- Sumter 45085
- Union 45087
- Williamsburg 45089
- York 45091
Tennessee view state ↗ 44 N ▾
- Benton 47005
- Bledsoe 47007
- Blount 47009
- Carroll 47017
- Cocke 47029
- Coffee 47031
- Cumberland 47035
- Davidson 47037
- DeKalb 47041
- Fayette 47047
- Fentress 47049
- Franklin 47051
- Giles 47055
- Greene 47059
- Grundy 47061
- Hawkins 47073
- Haywood 47075
- Henry 47079
- Hickman 47081
- Houston 47083
- Jackson 47087
- Knox 47093
- Lake 47095
- Loudon 47105
- Macon 47111
- Madison 47113
- Marshall 47117
- McNairy 47109
- Monroe 47123
- Montgomery 47125
- Morgan 47129
- Obion 47131
- Overton 47133
- Roane 47145
- Rutherford 47149
- Sevier 47155
- Shelby 47157
- Stewart 47161
- Sumner 47165
- Tipton 47167
- Union 47173
- Warren 47177
- Washington 47179
- Weakley 47183
Texas view state ↗ 10 N ▾
Utah view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 70 N ▾
- Accomack 51001
- Albemarle 51003
- Amelia 51007
- Amherst 51009
- Augusta 51015
- Bedford 51019
- Botetourt 51023
- Brunswick 51025
- Buckingham 51029
- Campbell 51031
- Caroline 51033
- Charles City 51036
- Charlotte 51037
- Chesapeake (city) 51550
- Chesterfield 51041
- Clarke 51043
- Culpeper 51047
- Cumberland 51049
- Essex 51057
- Fairfax 51059
- Fauquier 51061
- Fluvanna 51065
- Frederick 51069
- Gloucester 51073
- Goochland 51075
- Greensville 51081
- Halifax 51083
- Hampton (city) 51650
- Hanover 51085
- Henrico 51087
- Isle of Wight 51093
- James City 51095
- King and Queen 51097
- King George 51099
- King William 51101
- Lancaster 51103
- Madison 51113
- Mathews 51115
- Mecklenburg 51117
- Middlesex 51119
- Nelson 51125
- New Kent 51127
- Newport News (city) 51700
- Northampton 51131
- Northumberland 51133
- Nottoway 51135
- Orange 51137
- Pittsylvania 51143
- Powhatan 51145
- Prince Edward 51147
- Prince George 51149
- Prince William 51153
- Pulaski 51155
- Richmond 51159
- Roanoke 51161
- Rockingham 51165
- Shenandoah 51171
- Smyth 51173
- Southampton 51175
- Spotsylvania 51177
- Stafford 51179
- Suffolk (city) 51800
- Surry 51181
- Sussex 51183
- Virginia Beach (city) 51810
- Warren 51187
- Washington 51191
- Westmoreland 51193
- Wythe 51197
- York 51199
West Virginia view state ↗ 15 N ▾
Wisconsin view state ↗ 1 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/HIMO ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/3152596 ↗Record version
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