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§1 Plant
Hibiscus syriacus L.
vernacular rose of Sharon — species · Malvaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Shrub, Tree
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Malvaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Hibiscus
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
§2b
County-level range
· 184 counties across 21 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 184 counties across 21 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 6 I ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 10 I ▾
Delaware view state ↗ 1 I ▾
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Indiana view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 17 I ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 25 I ▾
- Bienville 22013
- Caddo 22017
- Caldwell 22021
- Catahoula 22025
- Claiborne 22027
- De Soto 22031
- East Baton Rouge 22033
- East Carroll 22035
- Franklin 22041
- Iberia 22045
- Lafourche 22057
- Lincoln 22061
- Morehouse 22067
- Orleans 22071
- Ouachita 22073
- Rapides 22079
- Richland 22083
- Sabine 22085
- St. Charles 22089
- St. Landry 22097
- St. Tammany 22103
- Union 22111
- Vermilion 22113
- Webster 22119
- Winn 22127
Mississippi view state ↗ 5 I ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 5 I ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 17 I ▾
New York view state ↗ 12 I ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Ohio view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 21 I ▾
- Allegheny 42003
- Armstrong 42005
- Beaver 42007
- Bedford 42009
- Berks 42011
- Blair 42013
- Bucks 42017
- Chester 42029
- Delaware 42045
- Erie 42049
- Fayette 42051
- Franklin 42055
- Huntingdon 42061
- Lancaster 42071
- Lehigh 42077
- Montgomery 42091
- Northampton 42095
- Philadelphia 42101
- Warren 42123
- Washington 42125
- York 42133
South Carolina view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 15 I ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 32 I ▾
- Accomack 51001
- Albemarle 51003
- Amherst 51009
- Arlington 51013
- Caroline 51033
- Charles City 51036
- Charlotte 51037
- Chesterfield 51041
- Fairfax 51059
- Fauquier 51061
- Gloucester 51073
- Hampton (city) 51650
- James City 51095
- King George 51099
- King William 51101
- Lee 51105
- Loudoun 51107
- Madison 51113
- Mecklenburg 51117
- Northampton 51131
- Northumberland 51133
- Page 51139
- Powhatan 51145
- Prince William 51153
- Rappahannock 51157
- Shenandoah 51171
- Smyth 51173
- Stafford 51179
- Suffolk (city) 51800
- Surry 51181
- Warren 51187
- York 51199
West Virginia view state ↗ 3 I ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/HISY ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/3152583 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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