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Malva neglecta is a species of plant of the family Malvaceae, native to most of the Old World except sub-Saharan Africa.It is an annual growing to 0.6 m (2 ft). It is known as common mallow in the United States and also as buttonweed, cheeseplant, cheeseweed, dwarf mallow, and roundleaf mallow. [2]
Sidalcea malviflora is a species of flowering plant in the mallow family, known by the common names dwarf checkerbloom, [1] Greek mallow, [2] prairie mallow [3] and dwarf checkermallow. Distribution [ edit ]
Abutilon parvulum is a species of flowering plant in the mallow family known by the common names dwarf Indian mallow and dwarf abutilon and native to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. [1] [2] This is a perennial herb growing from a woody root and producing a multibranched stem to a maximum height near 40 centimetres (16 in).
Malva pusilla, also known as Malva rotundifolia (the latter of which is now officially rejected by botanists) [citation needed], the low mallow, [1] small mallow, [2] or the round-leaved mallow, is an annual and biennial herb species of the Mallow genus Malva in the family of Malvaceae. Malva is a genus that consists of about 30 species of plants.
Mallow was described, with its many virtues and properties, by Pliny the Elder in his Naturalis Historia (20, LXXXIV). [ 9 ] [ 10 ] The species name "parviflora" means "of small flowers" and is a compound that comes from Latin parvum, -i , "small" (which in turn comes from Greek παύρος ), and flora , from flos, -ris , "flower".
Malva sylvestris Cheeseweed, Behbahan, Iran. Malva is a genus of herbaceous annual, biennial, and perennial plants in the family Malvaceae.It is one of several closely related genera in the family to bear the common English name mallow.
In mid- to late summer the clumps of toothed basal leaves produce erect flowering stems, with 5-petalled mallow-type flowers in terminal racemes, in shades of pink, white and purple. [ 3 ] Sidalcea is generally diploid (2n = 20), but polyploidy (4n, 6n) also occurs.
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.