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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).
Anisodontea capensis, known as African mallow, dwarf hibiscus, Cape mallow and false mallow, is a species in the tribe Malveae in the family Malvaceae that is native to the Cape Provinces of South Africa. [3] [2] It has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit as an ornamental. [4]
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.
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 parviflora was described by Carl Linnaeus and published in Demonstrationes Plantarum in Horto Upsaliensi on October 3, 1753. [10]Etymology. The genus name "Malva"' is derived from Latin malva, -ae, a word used in Ancient Rome to refer to various types of mallow, primarily common mallow (Malva sylvestris), but also marshmallow (Althaea officinalis) and tree mallow (Malva arborea).