Hollyhock
ಬಿಂದಿಗೆ ಗಿಡஆல்தீயா ரோசியாপাতি হলিহক
Alcea rosea L.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 2.0 m
- wide
- 46 cm
Malvaceae
Formerly Alcea annua, Alcea cretica, Alcea microchiton, Althaea caribaea, and 11 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Biennial or perennialKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- As a cultigen from TürkiyeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 1.5 m to 2.4 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 30 cm to 61 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- White, yellow, orange, red, pink, purpleRead from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Chinese
- 蜀葵, 蜀葵子, 蜀葵根
- Simplified Chinese
- 一丈红, 棋盘花, 蜀葵
- Dutch
- Stokroos
- Arabic
- خطمية وردية
- Asturian
- malva real
- Azerbaijani
- Çəhrayı bəlğəmotu
- Bangla
- পাতি হলিহক
- Catalan
- Malva reial
- Czech
- topolovka růžová
- Welsh
- hocysen fendigaid
- German
- Gewöhnliche Stockrose
- Spanish
- Alcea rosea
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 4.0
- 3D model: Alcea rosea (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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