Editing Alcea (section)

{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants in the mallow family Malvaceae}}
{{Redirect|Hollyhock|the streambank wild hollyhock, a related species in western North America|Iliamna rivularis{{!}}''Iliamna rivularis''|other uses|Hollyhock (disambiguation)}}
{{Automatic taxobox
|image = Alcea_setosa.jpg
|image_caption = ''[[Alcea setosa]]''
|taxon = Alcea
|authority = [[Carl Linnaeus|L.]]
|display_parents = 2
|subdivision_ranks = Species
|subdivision = See text
}}

'''''Alcea''''' is a genus of over 80 species of flowering plants in the mallow family [[Malvaceae]], commonly known as the '''hollyhocks'''.<ref name=foc>{{cite web|url=http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=100963 |title=''Alcea'' |author=Tang, Y. |work=Flora of China |publisher=Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO, and Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, Massachusetts |access-date=24 July 2012|display-authors=etal}}</ref> They are native to Asia and Europe.<ref name=foc/> The single species of hollyhock from the Americas, the [[Iliamna rivularis|streambank wild hollyhock]], belongs to a different genus.