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It is known as common mallow in the United States and also as buttonweed, cheeseplant, cheeseweed, dwarf mallow, and roundleaf mallow. [2] This plant is often consumed as a food, with its leaves, stalks and seed all being considered edible. [3] [4] [5] This is especially true of the seeds, which contain 21% protein and 15.2% fat. [6]
The flowers are actinomorphic with 5 lilac/pink petals up to 2 cm long and 5 green sepals which are much shorter than the petals, and fused at the base. Below the petals is a cup-shaped epicalyx with 6-9 narrow, triangular lobes, half the length of the sepals. The purple stamens are united into a tube, the anthers kidney-shaped and one-celled ...
It is one of several closely related genera in the family to bear the common English name mallow. The genus is widespread throughout the temperate, subtropical and tropical regions of Africa, Asia and Europe. [3] The leaves are alternate, palmately lobed. The flowers are from 0.5–5 cm diameter, with five pink, lilac, purple or white petals.
Mulukhiyah (Arabic: ملوخية, romanized: mulūkhiyyah), also known as mulukhiyya, molokhiyya, melokhiyya, or ewédú, is a type of jute plant and a dish made from the leaves of Corchorus olitorius, commonly known in English as jute, jute leaves, jute mallow, nalta jute, or tossa jute. [3] [4] It is used as a vegetable and is mainly eaten in ...
[5] [7] The broad leaves have 5–7 shallow lobes and are 8–10 cm in diameter. [5] The lobe edges are round-toothed, with varying hairiness. [7] It has small white or pink flowers year-round at the base of leaf stalks; flowers have 4–10 mm long petals. [5] [7] The 2 mm seeds are reddish-brown and kidney-shaped. [7]
Abutilon indicum (Indian abutilon, Indian mallow) is a small shrub in the family Malvaceae, native to tropical and subtropical regions. This plant is a valuable medicinal and ornamental plant, its roots and leaves being used for curing fevers. It has been widely introduced outside of its native range, and is considered invasive on certain ...
Malva sylvestris is a species of the mallow genus Malva, of which it the type species.Known as common mallow to English-speaking Europeans, [3] it acquired the common names of cheeses, high mallow and tall mallow (mauve des bois by the French) [4] as it migrated from its native home in Western Europe, North Africa and Asia through the English-speaking world.
Sidalcea oregana ssp. spicata — spicate checkerbloom or bog mallow, [7] widespread in meadows or streamsides of the Sierra and Cascades in California, below 10,000 ft (3,000 m). [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 8 ] Sidalcea oregana ssp. valida — Kenwood Marsh checkerbloom, known only from two marshes in Sonoma County, California , a federal, state, and CNPS ...