Island Mallow
Malva assurgentiflora (Kellogg) M.F.Ray
- light
- —
- water
- —
- tall
- 2.0 m
- wide
- 2.5 m
Malvaceae
Also called Malva Rosa, Californian Mallow, Island mallow, Mission Mallow, Royal mallow
Formerly Althaea assurgentifolia, Lavatera assurgentiflora, Saviniona assurgentiflora
When it flowers
Flowers April to May in the tropics.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Shrub or treeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- SubtropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- California (Channel Is.)Kew's checklist, not yet checked
- Height
- 99 cm to 3.0 mRead from Wikipedia and Las Pilitas Nursery, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: Wikipedia 1–4 m; Las Pilitas Nursery 1–3 m
- Spread
- 99 cm to 4.0 mRead from Las Pilitas Nursery, one source
- Flowers
- PinkRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -6.7 °C (USDA zone 9a)Read from Las Pilitas Nursery, one source
Not known yet: light, water, heat, hottest it survives.
Grow it with
Suggested by a rule, not by a gardener: same climate (kew), flowering when this plant does not (inaturalist), and a different shape.
African irisFlowers June to March, when this does not
Bird of paradiseFlowers June to March, when this does not
Cape leadwortFlowers June to March, when this does not
Creeping WoodsorrelFlowers June to March, when this does not
French lavenderFlowers June to March, when this does not
Heart-leaf ice plantFlowers June to March, when this does not
In other languages (4)
- Russian
- Мальва торчащецветковая
- Chinese (China)
- 朝天花葵
- Spanish
- Malva rosa
- Chinese
- 朝天花葵
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Las Pilitas Nursery, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Malva assurgentiflora (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.