The deep red
funnel-shaped flowers are 5-6 inches wide. The
flowers are borne on long peduncles that arise
out of the leaf axils. There are 10 or more involucral bracts which are
very narrow, 1¾ inch long and curved upward. The
bracts are much shorter than the calyx lobes.
Mid to late
summer.
This rose mallow
has 5-6 inches wide leaves which are palmately lobed into 3, 5, or 7 jagged
finger-like lobes. The lobes are very slender,
almost skeleton-like and are remotely toothed.
