Pineland Hibiscus

Tolerates winter flooding.

This is a wetland plant. It is rarely grown, but it has potential in appropriate sites.



Wet wildflower garden. For appearance, cut back to the ground in winter.

Not salt tolerant of inundation by salty or brackish water.



Low/no tolerance of salty wind or direct salt spray

Moist sites. Hydric and mesic pine flatwoods, edges of sloughs, savannas, bogs, ditches.

• Showy flowers
• 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.