§1 Plant
Alcea rosea L.
vernacular hollyhock — species · Malvaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Biennial, Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Malvaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Alcea
§2a
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
- PR Puerto Rico Introduced
§2b
County-level range
· 55 counties across 10 states/territories§3Cultivation
No cultivation specs.
USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 55 counties across 10 states/territories.
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 4 I ▾
Montana view state ↗ 5 I ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 3 I ▾
New York view state ↗ 10 I ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 23 I ▾
- Allegheny 42003
- Bedford 42009
- Blair 42013
- Bucks 42017
- Carbon 42025
- Centre 42027
- Chester 42029
- Clearfield 42033
- Columbia 42037
- Cumberland 42041
- Delaware 42045
- Franklin 42055
- Huntingdon 42061
- Jefferson 42065
- Lancaster 42071
- Lebanon 42075
- Lehigh 42077
- Luzerne 42079
- Mifflin 42087
- Montgomery 42091
- Northampton 42095
- Philadelphia 42101
- Somerset 42111
Rhode Island view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 5 I ▾
West Virginia view state ↗ 1 I ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/ALRO3 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/5406789 ↗Record version
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