CURBSIDE PICKUP AVAILABLE!
Please select “Local Pickup” at checkout. We will notify you when it’s ready to be picked up, and coordinate with you from there. Make sure to put your phone number in when you check out!
Scarlet Hibiscus
Malvaceae
Plant Specifics
Bog/swamp plant that is a superstar pollinator. The flowers are show stoppers! Dies back in the winter but always returns bigger and better. 1 gallon pots, shipped bare root and wrapped carefully if shipping is selected.
Attracts hummingbirds.
- Larval host of Gray Hairstreak, Painted Lady Butterfly, Common Checkered Skipper and Tropical Checkered Skipper butterflies and four moths : Pearly Wood Nymph, Yellow Scallop Moth, Io Moth, and Delightful Bird-Dropping Moths.
- Attracts butterflies and native bees (including the Rose-mallow Bee which is a Hibiscus specialist), beetles, etc.
| Size: | 5-8 ft tall by 2-4 ft wide | |
| Life Span: | Long-lived perennial | |
| Flower Color: | White,red | |
| Fruit Color: | Brown | |
| Phenology: | Winter dormant. Blooms spring-summer. | |
| Habitats: | Wet sites. Strands, sloughs, swamps, brackish and freshwater marshes; commonly in water. |
Landscaping
| Recommended Uses: | Specimen plant in moist areas. There is also a white-flowered variant. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Light: | Full Sun, Part Shade | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Moisture Tolerance: |
always floodedextremely dry
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Salt Water Flooding Tolerance: | Not salt tolerant of inundation by salty or brackish water. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Salt Spray Tolerance: | Low/no tolerance of salty wind or direct salt spray | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Soil/Substrate: | Loam, Organic material (muck) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||