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Alcea setosa
Alcea setosa, the bristly hollyhock, is an ornamental plant in the family Malvaceae.
The bristly hollyhock is native to the Levant: ranging from Crete, Turkey, Lebanon and Syria to Israel and Jordan. The part above ground of the plant withers and dies in the summer. In the winter, a rosette of leaves develops and a vertical flowering stem grows out of it. The pink flowers are numerous and large, while in the Galilee and the Carmel the flowers are darker and in the Gilboa and Samaria the flowers are lighter. In the Mount Lebanon, flowers ranging from dark pink to white can be found. The whole plant is bristly, hence its common name. The plant flowers from April until June.
Alcea apterocarpa · Pale Hollyhock · Fingered Hollyhock · Hollyhock · Grossheim's Alcea · Heldreich's Hollyhock · Alcea remotiflora · Hollyhock · Russian Hollyhock · Desert Hollyhock · Hollyhock
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Alcea setosa by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
