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Alcea striata
Alcea striata, the desert hollyhock, is a tall hollyhock plant native between Turkey and Saudi Arabia. It is found in rocky limestone slopes, fields, roadsides, scrub, and deserts, in the elevations 0–1200 m (0–4000 ft). It can be found in Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Sinai, and Turkey.
Alcea apterocarpa · Pale Hollyhock · Fingered Hollyhock · Hollyhock · Grossheim's Alcea · Heldreich's Hollyhock · Alcea remotiflora · Hollyhock · Russian Hollyhock · Bristly Hollyhock · Hollyhock
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Alcea striata 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.
