TermGallery

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Showy shrub of salt marshes of the eastern United States having large rose-colored flowers.

Spartina and rose mallow appeared in the salt marshes. 
 The world without us 

The pink bee-bush stood tall along the sandy roadsides, and the cone-flowers and rose mallow grew everywhere. 
 My Antonia 

Crimson-eye hibiscus or swamp mallow, blooming in August and September 
 Making a Garden of Perennials 

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