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<\/a>\r\nYellow Dog’s rosemallow, six petals, 2022-06-21<\/a>\r\n<\/p>\r\n
\r\nThis year it has six petals.\r\n
\r\nHere she is\r\n\r\n a year ago<\/a>, on her last day:\r\n \r\n \r\nThis flower is more typical, with five petals.\r\nAnd I think it really is a Hibiscus laevis<\/em>,\r\nhalberdleaf rose-mallow or scarlet rose mallow.\r\n \r\n \r\nThe Seek app thinks this is a\r\nHibiscus asculeatus<\/em>,\r\ncomfortroot, or pineland hibiscus.\r\nIt does have more rounded leaves.\r\nAnd this one seems to have six petals.\r\n \r\nIt’s down towards Redeye Creek, which flows into the Withlacoochee River.\r\n \r\n \r\nFlorida Wildflower Foundation says<\/a> comfortroot\r\n“is a large perennial wildflower that occurs naturally in wet to mesic pinelands, and along the edges of savannas, bogs and roadside ditches. It typically blooms late spring through fall and attracts many pollinators, especially bees.”\r\nAll that fits where we see it.\r\n \r\nNot sure this exactly the same plant as the first one, but very close to the same location.\r\n \r\n \r\nAnd one more.\r\nI never notice them blooming all the way through August before.\r\n \r\n \r\nBoth species are in the the mallow family Malvaceae<\/em>, which also includes okra and cotton.\r\nUnlike okra, these hibiscus are native here.\r\n \r\n -jsq\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some wild hibiscus, summer of 2022. This is Yellow Dog’s rosemallow, the last one she saw, a year before. Yellow Dog’s rosemallow, six petals, 2022-06-21 This year it has six petals. Here she is","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[29,6,3082],"tags":[3322,2770,440,3,23,3320,3321,2938,5,2,2760,3323,1630,3058,3084,3319,310,3318,25],"class_list":["post-9107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dogs","category-okra-paradise-farms","category-rosemallow","tag-comfortroot","tag-dogs","tag-flowers","tag-georgia","tag-gretchen-quarterman","tag-halberdleaf-rose-mallow","tag-hibiscus-asculeatus","tag-hibiscus-laevis","tag-john-s-quarterman","tag-lowndes-county","tag-okra-paradise-farms","tag-pineland-hibiscus","tag-redeye-creek","tag-rosemallow","tag-scarlet-rose-mallow","tag-withlacoochee-and-little-river-water-trail","tag-withlacoochee-river","tag-wlrwt","tag-yellow-dog"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Gj0O-2mT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9107"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9109,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9107\/revisions\/9109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"[Halberd-leaf](\"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/pictures\/2021-06-12--rosemallow-yellow-dog-beautyberry-rain-lily\/20210612_074654.jpg\")
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Halberd-leaf rosemallow, Yellow Dog<\/a>\r\n<\/p>\r\n![\"[On](\"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/pictures\/2022-06-19--hibiscus\/20220805_172627.jpg\")
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On the not a driveway, Hibiscus laevis, 2022-08-05<\/a>\r\n<\/p>\r\n![\"[In](\"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/pictures\/2022-06-19--hibiscus\/20220824_111823.jpg\")
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In front of the little house, Hibiscus asculeatus, 2022-08-24<\/a>\r\n<\/p>\r\n![\"[Yellow](\"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/pictures\/2022-06-19--hibiscus\/20220827_133246.jpg\")
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Yellow Dog’s rosemallow again, 2022:08:27 13:32:46,<\/a> 31.0113080, -83.2682490<\/a>\r\n<\/span>\r\n<\/p>\r\n![\"[On](\"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/pictures\/2022-06-19--hibiscus\/20220828_091910.jpg\")
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On the back driveway, 2022-08-28<\/a>\r\n<\/p>\r\n