Hollyhock - Alcea rosea
Tall, rather bristly plant up to 3 metres in height. Leaves large (to 30 cm) rounded heart-shape in outline, usually 5 to 7 lobed, coarsely toothed, long stalked. Flowers generally pink or white, large 60 to 80 mm in long, leafy, slender racemes.
Usually found as an escape from cultivation. Occurring on roadside verges and waste places, often close to habitation.
Flowers July to September.
Perennial.
Widespread in England as an escape from cultivation.
Rarely recorded in Leicestershire and Rutland. It was not included in the 1979 Flora survey of Leicestershire.
Graham Calow
Broughton Astley B581 Broughton Way
03 September 2021
Steve Mathers
Holwell Village
22 June 2017
Graham Calow
Bumblebee Lane, Near High Cross
24 March 2016
Saharima Roenisch
Evington Brook, Stoneygate
26 June 2018
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Species profile
- Common names
- Hollyhock
- Species group:
- flowering plant
- Kingdom:
- Plantae
- Order:
- Malvales
- Family:
- Malvaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 20
- First record:
- 24/03/2016 (Calow, Graham)
- Last record:
- 16/08/2025 (Pugh, Dylan)
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Graham Calow
Broughton Astley B581 Broughton Way
03 September 2021
Graham Calow
Broughton Astley B581 Broughton Way
03 September 2021
Dylan
Melton Kirby Lane
06 July 2023
Mallow Rust
Puccinia malvacearum is a rust fungus that galls the leaves and petioles of members of the Malvaceae family including Hollyhock and Mallows (such as Common Mallow). There is no host alternation, and only telia are produced. Numerous yellow spots occur on the upper surfaces of the leaves, whilst on the underside of the leaves and on the petioles it causes hard rounded swellings, occasionally yellowish but most often reddish brown and later powder grey.