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Alcea rosea L.
Engl.: hollyhock, common garden hollyhock, garden hollyhock.
Deu.: Stockrose, Chinesische Stockrose, Stockmalve.
Fran.: rose trémière.
Sven.: stockros.
Suom.: tarhasalkoruusu, salkoruusu.
Span.: alcea, malvaloca, malvarrosa.
Bot. syn.: Althaea rosea (L.) Cav.
Classic texts: King's 1898.
Classic texts: Elizabeth Blackwell, 1737 (Vol. 1), 1739 (Vol. 2).
Classic texts: The American Eclectic Dispensatory, by John King, 1854.
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Classic texts: USDisp 1918.
Classic texts: Sturtevant 1919.
Classic texts: Sayre 1917.
Classic texts: Cook 1869.
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