1. Plant with terminal racemes of showy white to pink or purple flowers; the English cottage garden hollyhock
   "Rose mallows added height to the back of the border";
   - Alcea rosea, Althea rosea
    
2. Showy shrub of salt marshes of the eastern United States having large rose-coloured flowers
   "Rose mallow brightened the coastal wetlands"; "common rose mallow brightened the coastal wetlands"; "swamp rose mallow brightened the coastal wetlands";
   - swamp mallow, common rose mallow, swamp rose mallow, Hibiscus moscheutos

Derived forms: rose mallows

Type of: hibiscus, hollyhock

Part of: Alcea, genus Alcea

Encyclopedia: Rose mallow