Flower of an hour
ஒருமணி நேரப் பூഹൈബിസ്കസ് ട്രൈയോണം
Hibiscus trionum L.
- light
- —
- water
- —
- tall
- 36 cm
- wide
- —
Malvaceae
Also called Flower-of-an-Hour
Formerly Abelmoschus collinsianus, Hibiscus africanus, Hibiscus armeniacus, Hibiscus collinsianus, 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
- Annual or biennialKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- SubtropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- EC. & E. Europe to Medit. and W. HimalayaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Height
- 20 cm to 51 cmRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Flowers
- White, yellowRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: light, spread, water, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- German
- Stundenblume
- Chinese
- 野西瓜苗, 野西瓜苗子
- Simplified Chinese
- 灯笼花, 小秋葵, 火炮草
- Māori
- Puarangi
- Afrikaans
- Terblansbossie
- Czech
- ibišek trojdílný
- Welsh
- cetmia chwysigennog
- Finnish
- ajannäyttäjä, Ajannäyttäjähibiskus
- Korean
- 수박풀
- Dutch
- Drie-urenbloem, Uurbloem
- Slovenian
- navadni oslez
- Swedish
- Timvisare
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3D model: Hibiscus trionum (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.