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Hardiness Zone: 5-9
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Mature Height: 4-5 Feet
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Mature Spread: 4-5 Feet
Buy Sugar Tip® Gold Althea online. Sugar Tip® Gold Althea brings more foliage interest – bright gold variegation – and a new lavender flower color. It is also a bit smaller than the original, and it shares its same appealing habit and non-invasive seed pods. Note: Althea is considered a woody shrub or tree and will not die back to the ground in winter like hardy hibiscus.
Family: Malvaceae
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Common Name: Althea / Rose of Sharon / Hardy Hibiscus
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SUGAR TIP® GOLD ALTHEA Plant Characteristics
Brand*
| • | Proven Winners® Color Choice® |
Flower Color*
| • | Light Yellow |
Growth Rate*
| • | Fast |
Leaf Color Fall*
| • | Light Yellow/Brilliant Yellow |
Leaf Color Summer*
| • | Multi/Variegated |
Nature Assets*
| • | Attracts Bees |
| • | Attracts Butterflies |
| • | Attracts Hummingbirds |
| • | Deer Resistant |
Plant Type*
| • | Shrub |
Preferred Planting Season*
| • | Spring Planting |
| • | Summer Planting |
Preferred Soil Conditions*
| • | Average |
| • | Moist |
| • | Well-Drained |
Season of Interest*
| • | Fall |
| • | Late Spring/Early Summer |
| • | Late Summer/Early Autumn |
| • | Spring |
| • | Summer |
Sun Exposure*
| • | Prefers Full Sun in Northern States |
| • | Prefers Full Sun in Southern States |
Uses*
| • | Accent Plant |
| • | Border Plant |
| • | Landscape Specimen |
| • | Mass Planting |
| • | Near Water Gardens or Ponds |
| • | Under Power Lines |
| • | Understory Planting |
| • | Wildlife Habitat |















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