| Description | Minerva Rose of Sharon (Hibiscus syriacus) is a large shrub with lavender flowers late in the blooming season. |
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| Plant Type | Shrubs Deciduous |
| Hardiness Zone | 4-8 |
| Sunlight | prefers full sun, tolerates some shade |
| Moisture | prefers moist, tolerates average |
| Soil & Site | average |
| Flowers | A sterile triploid, produces very few if any seed pods. Flowers are perfect and 5 petaled, 4-5 inches lavender pink with dark red eyes. Blooms end of July through September. |
| Fruit | 5 valved, dehiscent capsule |
| Leaves | alternate, green, palmately veined and have three lobes |
| Dimensions | large over 10 tall and over 5 foot spread, to large to use in foundation planting but can be used as the main shrub in a corner planting or in any other areas that need medium to large flowering shrubs |
| Maintenance | best time to prune is late winter early spring, can be cut back hard, pruning will produce more new wood creating more flowers |
| Propagation | cuttings |
| Native Site | Species plant native to eastern Asia. |
| Cultivar Origin | Introduction by the U.S. National Arboretum in Washington, D.C. |
| Author's Notes | The area where I live has been up graded 1/2 hardiness zone. With this warming Hibiscus syriacus has less winter kill of branches. |
| Notes & Reference | #01-Manual of Woody Landscape Plants (Michael Dirr), #144-Missouri Botanical Gardens web site (www.missouribotanicalgarden.org) |
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