Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
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Malva sylvestris
Tall Mallow
Malvaceae
Weed of gardens and crops. Mostly coastal north from Camden. Rarely elsewhere.
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)
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