Hibiscus syriacus is a shrub with large showy flowers (in single or double flowering form, with solid colors or bicolors) that blooms all Summer long and has a distinctive vase-shaped growth habit.

Single or double-flowering, large-petaled, very showy flowers adorn the plant throughout the Summer. Solid colors of white, red, purple, mauve, violet, or blue, or bicolors with a different colored throat, depending upon cultivar. Hibiscus syriacus got a blossom at 2 year old.

USDA zones 5-9.

Similar plants:

• Abelmoschus esculentus, Hibiscus esculentus (Okra, Bamia, Gombo)
• Abelmoschus moschatus, Hibiscus abelmoschus (Musk Mallow)
• Alyogyne hakeifolia, Hibiscus hakeifolius, Cienfuegosia hakeifolia, Fugosia hakeifolia, Alyogyne lilacina (Red-centred Hibiscus, Desert Rose)
• Alyogyne huegelii, Hibiscus geranifolius (Blue Hibiscus)
• Hibiscus acetosella (African Rosemallow, Maple Sugar, Red Hibiscus, Cranberry Shield, Gongura)
• Hibiscus arnottianus (Hawaiian White Hibiscus, Hau hele, O'ahu White Hibiscus)
• Hibiscus Aurora (Hibiscus Aurora)
• Hibiscus cannabinus (Kenaf, Java Jute )
• Hibiscus Celia (Double red hibiscus)
• Hibiscus coccineus (Scarlet Hibiscus, Scarlet Rose Mallow, Swamp Hibiscus)