Alcea digitata
Alcea digitata, the fingered hollyhock, is a tall hollyhock with large flowers native to the Middle East.
Description
A medium to tall, hairy hollyhock with large, pinkish, or pale flowers. The leaves are distinctively divided into spreading finger-like lobes whose edges are irregular and at times sublobed, the lobes at the base of the leaf tending to point rather backward. Whilst the leaf-end lobe is larger than the others but not hugely so. The low leaves can be well-divided into fingers or just shallowly lobed.The stem is narrow and branched only at the base.The hairs are star-like. When tall, its height mostly comprises a long flower stalk with little leafage. It is found at roadsides, fields, rocky slopes, steppe, and maquis.
The epicalyx is large. The fruit segments with wingless edges, conspicuously wrinkled, pilose hairy.