rose mallow
1. plant with terminal racemes of showy white to pink or purple flowers; the English cottage garden hollyhock • Syn: Alcea rosea, Althea rosea • Hypernyms: hollyhock • Member Holonyms: Alcea, genus Alcea 2. showy shrub of salt marshes of the eastern United States having large rose-colored flowers • Syn: swamp mallow, common rose mallow, swamp rose mallow, Hibiscus moscheutos • Hypernyms: hibiscus
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