Malva neglectaWallr.

dwarf mallow

WFO wfo-0000449218 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Malva neglecta, photographed by Brenda Black
fig. a Brenda Black, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-09 / obs. 205775393
Malva neglecta, photographed by Matthew Vosper
fig. b Matthew Vosper, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204497470
Malva neglecta, photographed by Daniel Cahen
fig. c Daniel Cahen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205535899
Malva neglecta, photographed by Violet T.
fig. d Violet T., CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204476012
Malva neglecta, photographed by Alexis Tinker-Tsavalas
fig. e Alexis Tinker-Tsavalas, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203423800
Malva neglecta, photographed by Daniel Cahen
fig. f Daniel Cahen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203816811
Malva neglecta, photographed by Josep Gesti
fig. g Josep Gesti, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 205202499
Malva neglecta, photographed by Radosław Puchałka
fig. h Radosław Puchałka, CC0 1.0 / obs. 204628187

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Flowering n = 2,751 observations

Peak flowering in Jun, from 2,751 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 7 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Malva fruticans Dorn. ex Rchb.
  • Malva orbiculata Pomel
  • Malva rotundifolia var. crispa Wimm. & Grab.
  • Malva rotundifolia var. intermedia Ball
  • Malva rotundifolia var. perennans Post
  • Malva salvitellensis Briganti
  • Malva vulgaris Fr.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.