Cheeseweed mallow
লাফা শাক
Malva parviflora L.
- light
- —
- water
- —
- tall
- 65 cm
- wide
- —
Malvaceae
Also called Cheeseweed, Little mallow, Small-flowered mallow, Cheese weed, Least Mallow
Formerly Althaea parviflora
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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
- AnnualKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Macaronesia, Medit. to Pakistan and SaharaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Height
- 51 cm to 79 cmRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Flowers
- White, pinkRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: light, spread, water, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- malva de Castilla, Malva, Malva de quesitos
- Hebrew
- חלמית קטנת-פרחים
- Czech
- sléz malokvětý
- Portuguese
- malva-de-flor-pequena
- Chinese
- 小花錦葵, 小叶锦葵
- Estonian
- egiptuse kassinaeris
- Norwegian Bokmål
- møllekattost
- French
- Mauve à petites fleurs, mauve à petites fleurs
- Finnish
- myllymalva
- Lithuanian
- Smulkiažiedė dedešva
- Arabic
- خبازة صغيرة الأزهار
- Japanese
- ウサギアオイ
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 4.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Malva parviflora (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.