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Hibiscus trionum (rosemallow; flower of an hour; flower-of-an-hour; flowerofanhour; bladder ketmia; Venice mallow)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Hibiscus trionum, commonly called flower-of-an-hour, bladder hibiscus, bladder ketmia, bladder weed, flower-of-the-hour, modesty, puarangi, shoofly, and venice mallow, is an annual plant native to the Levant. It has spread throughout southern Europe both as a weed and cultivated as a garden plant. It has been introduced to the United States as an ornamental where it has become naturalized as a weed of cropland and vacant land, particularly on disturbed ground.
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Infraspecies

Hibiscus trionum var. trionum
Hibiscus trionum var. vesicarius

Attributes

Allergen Potential [1]  Medium-Low
Bee Flower Color [2]  Blue-Green
Flower Color [2]  White
Edible [3]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Flower Type [3]  Hermaphrodite
Lifespan [3]  Annual/Perennial
Pollinators [3]  Insects, Lepidoptera
Structure [4]  Herb
Height [3]  24 inches (0.6 m)
Width [3]  12 inches (0.3 m)
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Protected Areas

Predators

Earias huegeliana[5]
Pyrgus communis (Checkered skipper)[5]

Providers

Pollinated by 
Bombus auricomus (Black and Gold Bumble bee)[6]
Bombus pensylvanicus (bumble bee)[6]
Eurymus philodice <Unverified Name>[6]
Melissodes boltoniae[6]
Pieris rapae (imported cabbageworm)[6]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

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♦ 1Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000)
♦ 2Arnold SEJ, Faruq S, Savolainen V, McOwan PW, Chittka L, 2010 FReD: The Floral Reflectance Database — A Web Portal for Analyses of Flower Colour. PLoS ONE 5(12): e14287.
♦ 3Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 4Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 5HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
♦ 6Robertson, C. Flowers and insects lists of visitors of four hundred and fifty three flowers. 1929. The Science Press Printing Company Lancaster, PA.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0