Hardy Hibiscus
Hibiscus moscheutos
Dinner-plate flowers in white, pink and red from midsummer into fall, on a native perennial that hummingbirds and butterflies love and that thrives in wet ground. It dies back each winter; keep it watered in dry spells.
- Mature size
- 5 × 4 ft
- 1.5 × 1.2 m, tall × wide
- Hardiness
- Zones 4a–9b
- USDA
- Sun
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Moist to wet
- Blooms
- Jul–Sep
Hardy Hibiscus at its mature size
A mature Hardy Hibiscus grows 2 to 7 feet tall and 2 to 5 feet wide.
Drawn to scale beside a 5 ft 9 in person. With VeraScape, you see it at this size in your own yard.
Typical mature size, unpruned. Sources: NC State Extension, The Morton Arboretum.
Through the year
What Hardy Hibiscus looks like month by month in a typical zone 6–7 garden.
Below ground · Oct–Apr
Dies back to the ground over winter.
New growth · May–Jun
Leafy green stems, no flowers yet.
In flower · Jul–Sep
Huge pink dinner-plate flowers with a crimson eye.
Growing Hardy Hibiscus
- Grows well in
- The Northeast, the Southeast, the Midwest, and the Plains and Mountain West.
- Growth rate
- Fast
- Good for
- Specimen, rain garden, pollinators, and fast growing
- Leaves
- Dies back in winter
- Native to
- Eastern United States and Southeast Canada
Spacing
VeraScape spaces plants so their grown canopies just touch. For Hardy Hibiscus, that’s about 4 ft apart, center to center.
Place a row in your own yard and VeraScape spaces them at their mature width, so you can see whether they’ll crowd the walk.
See Hardy Hibiscus in your yard before you dig
Visualize it at its true size, alongside the rest of your design.
Other hibiscus
Hardy Hibiscus
Tropical Hibiscus
Rose of SharonAll drawn to the same scale.