What is this flower?

ekr470 · **Posted:** Sat Jun 26, 2004 9:36 am

Can someone tell me what the name of this plant is?

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thanks in advance

dragonfly · **Posted:** Sun Jun 27, 2004 9:32 pm

It looks similar to Texas Bluebells, but the color doesn't look right. It's too rosy. Maybe it's in the same family of plants.

ekr470 · **Posted:** Mon Jun 28, 2004 11:19 am

I looked up the Texas Blue bell. I agree, the color is wrong as well as the leaves are not the same. Thanks for the input though.

Newt · **Posted:** Tue Jul 13, 2004 11:14 pm

Hi EKR,

They look like lisianthus to me. They are also known as Texas Bluebell and come in many different forms. Take a look at these sites to see how variable they are.

http://plantsdatabase.com/go/891/index.html
http://www.desert-tropicals.com/Plants/ ... lorum.html
http://gcrec.ifas.ufl.edu/Harbaughpubs/ ... nthus1.htm

Newt

ekr470 · **Posted:** Mon Aug 09, 2004 11:30 am

To anyone interested, I finally found out that this flower is called a Rose Mallow, a type of Hibiscus.

Newt · **Posted:** Mon Aug 09, 2004 12:19 pm

EKR,
Thanks for letting us know! Glad you found out what it is.
Newt