What is Hibiscus trionum?
{{italictitle}} {{taxobox |name = ''Hibiscus trionum''<br>Flower-of-an-hour |image = Hibiscus_trionum_bgiu_02.jpg |image_caption = ''Hibiscus trionum'' flower |regnum = [[Plantae]] |unranked_divisio = [[Angiosperms]] |unranked_classis = [[Eudicots]] |unranked_ordo = [[Rosids]] |ordo = [[Malvales]] |familia = [[Malvaceae]] |genus = ''[[Hibiscus]]'' |binomial = ''Hibiscus trionum'' |binomial_authority = [[Carolus Linnaeus|L.]]}} [[File:Hibiscus trionum MHNT.BOT.2007.43.29.jpg|thumb|''Hibiscus trionum'']] '''''Hibiscus trionum''''' is an [[annual plant]] that is native to the east of the [[Mediterranean]] in the [[Levant]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl/record/kew-2850654|title=The plant list: a working list of all plant species|access-date=2013-03-27|archive-date=2019-05-31|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190531155503/http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl/record/kew-2850654|url-status=dead}}</ref> It has spread both because people grow it as a [[garden]] plant, and because it can grow as a [[weed]]. The plant grows to a height of 20-50 cm, sometimes as much as 80 cm, and has white or yellow flowers with a purple centre. [[Common name]]s for the same plant include bladder hibiscus, bladder ketmia,<ref name=GRIN>{{cite web|url=http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?19098|title=USDA GRIN Taxonomy|access-date=2013-03-28|archive-date=2014-03-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140316034205/http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?19098|url-status=dead}}</ref> bladder weed, flower-of-an-hour,<ref name=GRIN/> flower-of-the-hour, modesty, puarangi, shoofly, and venice mallow.<ref name=GRIN/> ==References== {{reflist}} * {{cite book | author=Pink A. | url=http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/11892|title=Gardening for the Million| year=2004 | publisher=[[Project Gutenberg|Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation]]}} * {{cite web | url=http://www.illinoiswildflowers.info/weeds/plants/hour_flower.htm|title=Flower-of-an-Hour | last=Hilty | first=John | date=2012 | work=