Kosteletzkya virginica
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Photos, Renee Brecht |
Britton & Brown |
| Botanical name: | Kosteletzkya virginica |
| Common name: | salt marsh mallow |
| Group: | dicot |
| Family: | Malvaceae |
| Growth type: | forb/herb |
| Duration: | perennial |
| Origin: | native |
| Plant height: | 2 - 4' |
| Foliage: | leaves egg shaped, coarsely toothed or 3 lobed |
| Flower: | flowers usually pink, smaller than those of Hibiscus palustris |
| Flowering time: | bloom early August to September fruit late August to October |
| Habitat: | salt marsh edges; salt to slightly brackish water of streamsides |
| Range in New Jersey: | locally common in Cape May County and on the Delaware Bayshore, decreasing northward |
| Heritage ranking, if any: | n/a |
| Distribution: |  |