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|accepted_name=Hibiscus moscheutos
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=2: 693. 1753
|year=1753
}}
|common_names=Common rose-mallow
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Malvaceae;Malvaceae subfam. Malvoideae;Hibiscus;Hibiscus moscheutos
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Malvaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Malvaceae subfam. Malvoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Hibiscus]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Hibiscus moscheutos]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 6
|mention_page=page 252, 253, 255, 263
|treatment_page=page 262
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> perennial, to 2.5 m. <b>Stems</b> glabrous or variously hairy, but without line of curved hairs. <b>Leaves</b>: stipules subulate, 1–4 mm; petiole 1/4–3/4 blade, glabrate or finely hairy; blade narrowly to broadly lanceolate to triangular-ovate or orbiculate, 3-lobed or unlobed, 8–20 × 3–13 cm, base cordate to cuneate, margins crenate to dentate or serrate, apex acute to acuminate, surfaces variously hairy, sometimes glabrous adaxially, nectary absent. <b>Inflorescences</b> solitary flowers in axils of distal leaves, pedicels of later-produced flowers often adnate to subtending petioles. <b>Pedicels</b> variously jointed sub-basally to distally, 2–15 cm, 1/2–1 1/2 as long as petiole, glabrate or finely hairy; involucellar bractlets [8–]10–14[or 15], linear-lanceolate, 0.5–4.5(–5) cm, margins ciliate or not, hairy. <b>Flowers</b> ± horizontal to slightly declinate; calyx divided 1/2–2/3 length, broadly campanulate, 1.5–4 cm, somewhat larger in fruit, lobes triangular or triangular-ovate, apices acute to subcaudate, surfaces hairy, nectaries absent; corolla funnelform to broadly so, petals pink or white, sometimes with red spot basally, narrowly to broadly, obliquely obovate, 4–12 × 3.5–6.5 cm, margins repand, sometimes undulate, minutely hairy abaxially mostly where exposed in bud; staminal column straight, white or cream, 1.2–5 cm, to 1/2 as long as petals, bearing filaments nearly throughout, free portion of filaments not secund, 2–8 mm; pollen yellow; styles white, 10–40 mm; stigmas creamy white to yellow. <b>Capsules</b> dark brown, ovoid to subglobose, 1.4–3.5 cm, apex apiculate, glabrous or hairy. <b>Seeds</b> brown, reniform-globose, 2.5–3 mm, verrucose-papillose. <b>2n</b> = 38.</span><!--

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|distribution=Ont.;Ala.;Ark.;Calif.;Conn.;D.C.;Del.;Fla.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Kans.;Ky.;La.;Mass.;Md.;Mich.;Miss.;Mo.;N.C.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Mex.;N.Y.;Ohio;Okla.;Pa.;R.I.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.;Va.;W.Va.;Wis.;n Mexico;introduced in Europe (sw France;n Italy;nw Portugal);Asia (Georgia).
|discussion=<p>Subspecies 2 (2 in the flora).</p>
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|references=
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==Key==
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|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Capsules glabrous; involucellar bractlets usually not ciliate; leaf blade surfaces usually glabrous adaxially; mostly e of Mississippi River.
|[[Hibiscus moscheutos subsp. moscheutos|Hibiscus moscheutos subsp. moscheutos]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Capsules hairy; involucellar bractlets usually ciliate; leaf blade surfaces usually hairy adaxially; mostly w of Mississippi River, Florida.
|[[Hibiscus moscheutos subsp. lasiocarpos|Hibiscus moscheutos subsp. lasiocarpos]]
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Hibiscus moscheutos
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Malvaceae
|distribution=Ont.;Ala.;Ark.;Calif.;Conn.;D.C.;Del.;Fla.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Kans.;Ky.;La.;Mass.;Md.;Mich.;Miss.;Mo.;N.C.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Mex.;N.Y.;Ohio;Okla.;Pa.;R.I.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.;Va.;W.Va.;Wis.;n Mexico;introduced in Europe (sw France;n Italy;nw Portugal);Asia (Georgia).
|reference=None
|publication title=Sp. Pl.
|publication year=1753
|special status=
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|subfamily=Malvaceae subfam. Malvoideae
|genus=Hibiscus
|species=Hibiscus moscheutos
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