Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
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)
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