Malva sylvestrisL.

Common Mallow

WFO wfo-0000449636 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Malva sylvestris, photographed by Daniel Cahen
fig. a Daniel Cahen, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-12 / obs. 205542913
Malva sylvestris, photographed by Jeff Jones
fig. b Jeff Jones, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205526593
Malva sylvestris, photographed by Murielle Desrois
fig. c Murielle Desrois, CC0 1.0 / obs. 204892561
Malva sylvestris, photographed by David Carey
fig. d David Carey, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204118096
Malva sylvestris, photographed by Pete Bradshaw
fig. e Pete Bradshaw, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204421686
Malva sylvestris, photographed by Yann Kemper
fig. f Yann Kemper, CC0 1.0 / obs. 203935190
Malva sylvestris, photographed by Иван Ковтун Ivan Kovtun
fig. g Иван Ковтун Ivan Kovtun, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204846293
Malva sylvestris, photographed by Louis Aureglia
fig. h Louis Aureglia, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203953732

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Flowering n = 6,639 observations

Peak flowering in Jun, from 6,639 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 54 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.

  • Althaea godronii Alef.
  • Althaea mauritiana Alef.
  • Althaea vulgaris (Gray) Alef.
  • Althaea vulgaris Bubani
  • Malva acutiloba K.Koch
  • Malva acutiloba Sennen
  • Malva albiflora C.Presl
  • Malva altissima Sennen
  • Malva ambigua Guss.
  • Malva ambigua var. microphylla Rouy
  • Malva aragonensis Sennen
  • Malva ciliata Wall.
  • Malva elata Pomel
  • Malva elata Salisb.
  • Malva equina Wallr.
  • Malva erecta C.Presl
  • Malva erevaniana Takht.
  • Malva glabra Desr.
  • Malva grossheimii Iljin
  • Malva gymnocarpa Pomel
  • Malva hirsuta Viv.
  • Malva longelobata Sennen
  • Malva lucida Lindl.
  • Malva major Garsault

and 30 more.

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.