Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

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Malva sylvestris

Common name

Tall Mallow

Family

Malvaceae

Where found

Weed of gardens and crops. Mostly coastal north from Camden. Rarely elsewhere.

Notes

Introduced biennial or perennial herb to 1.5 m tall, sometimes sprawling. Leaves alternating up the stems, about 3–10 cm long, 30-100 mm wide, usually shallowly 5-lobed, more or less hairless, margins scalloped or irregularly toothed. Flowers pink to reddish purple or purple, with darker veins, with 5 petals each 12–30 mm long, in irregular clusters. Flowers Nov.–Feb.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Malva~sylvestris  (accessed 24 January, 2021)