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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.
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.
General common names include Indian mallow [7] and velvetleaf; [8] ornamental varieties may be known as room maple, parlor maple, or flowering maple. The genus name is an 18th-century Neo-Latin word [ 9 ] that came from the Arabic ’abū-ṭīlūn ( أبو طيلون ), [ 10 ] the name given by Avicenna to this or a similar genus.
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.