Rose of Sharon, a name given to an ornamental malvaceous plant, the Hibiscus syriacus (see HIBISCUS). But the Rose of Sharon of the Bible was doubtless a bulbous plant, probably a kind of narcissus.
Rose of Sharon
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 8: Peasant to Eoumelia, p. 809
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