Data provided by the participants of the Consortium of California Herbaria

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Hibiscus denudatus (common names: Paleface, Rock Hibiscus) is a perennial shrub of the mallow family, Malvaceae. It is in the rosemallow genus, Hibiscus. It is found in the southwest of North America in the southwestern United States and northern Mexico in the states of extreme southeast California, southern Nevada, southern Arizona and New Mexico, southwest Texas, Baja California-north, Sonora, Chihuahua, and Coahuila. It can be found in the Colorado and Sonoran Deserts, and in the east to the Chihuahuan Desert.

Plant type

Perennial herb

Size

2 ft Tall

Sun

Full Sun

Site type

Desert of mesas, canyons

Plant communities

Creosote Bush Scrub

Caterpillars
Butterflies

Butterflies and moths supported

2 confirmed and 5 likely

Confirmed Likely

Northern White-Skipper

Heliopetes ericetorum

Subterranean Dart

Feltia subterranea

Corn Earworm Moth

Helicoverpa zea