Alyogyne huegelii

Blue hibiscus

Family: Malvaceae · Type: shrub · Not Native

Blue hibiscus is a naturalized shrub found in southern coastal California in disturbed, generally urban places at elevations especially below 400 meters. Flowering from June to January, this plant produces large lilac-blue flowers 7 to 10 centimeters in diameter. Growing as an evergreen shrub to 2 meters tall, it develops with stems that are distinctively stellate-hairy, especially when young. Its leaves have blades 2 to 7 centimeters long with irregularly toothed and lobed edges. The fruit is an ovoid capsule approximately 2 centimeters long.

Habitat: Scarce. Disturbed, generally urban places

Bloom period: Jun-Jan

Elevation: especially < 400 m

Bioregions: SCo

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.