rose mallow

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun Any of several hibiscuses having large pink or white flowers, especially Hibiscus moscheutos, native to eastern North American wetlands and widely cultivated as an ornamental.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun See mallow.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun plant with terminal racemes of showy white to pink or purple flowers; the English cottage garden hollyhock
• noun showy shrub of salt marshes of the eastern United States having large rose-colored flowers