Landscape Plants

Some 200 or more species of shrubs and trees, as well as annuals, herbaceous perennials, and subshrubs.   Leaves alternate, palmately veined, with short petioles.  Flowers usually solitary and axillary, corolla broad campanulate, 5 petals, yellow, lavender, red, and other colors, often with a basal purple spot.  Fruit is a capsule, ovoid or oblong, 5-seeded.  Native to tropical, subtropical, and warm temperate regions.
Hibiscus: the Greek name for mallow.