Comfortroot

Beautiful colored flowers, very fuzzy attractive foliage.
I would agree with an earlier reviewer that it looks a lot like okra. Bu...Read Moret thats ok with me, I grow okra in my flowerbed b/c I think its so pretty.
I haven't planted mine in the ground yet, its been 3 years, but still no "perfect" spot. For two years I had it in its original 1 gallon nursery pot, where it uncomplainingly grew to 4' tall and bloomed like mad. Then I moved into a 16" diameter clay pot with a 'Maple Sugar' Hibiscus and some bronze "Sweet Caroline" potato vine. It liked that better and got 5' tall and very lush. Too bad I can't seperate the plants now! I have some seedlings growing in my watergardens, doing well. If you like hibiscus/ native plants seek this yellow beauty out.

PDN says 48" tall. It's 36" in poor clay on a slope for me but 60" under good conditions. The seeds pods are quite large and turn brown s...Read Moreo I prune most off. It's a good light yellow for the back of the border. Seeds but not excessively.

Of 12 hibiscus studied, one of the three top performers for resistance to the Hibiscus Saw Fly. By the Southern Horticultural Lab in MS....Read More

From The Plant Delights web site description: Also known as Pinelands Mallow. This wonderful native from NC, south and west to Texas, is one of the lesser-known of our native mallows. H. aculeatus is found in upland bogs, roadside ditches, and coastal pinelands within the Southeast. Although it likes moist feet, we have had very good luck growing it in raised sandy berms with regular watering. The fuzzy 4' stems are clothed with lobed, okra-like leaves.

From the leaf axils, plenty of 4-5" open, cone-shaped, light yellow flowers highlighted with a dark purple eye are produced from early summer until fall. Virtually everything about this plant is fuzzy...do not approach without a razor in hand.