Sea Mallow
Malva subovata (DC.) Molero & J.M.Monts.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- —
- tall
- 1.2 m
- wide
- 75 cm
Malvaceae
Also called Tree Mallow
Formerly Lavatera subovata
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.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Subshrub or shrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- SubtropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- W. & C. Medit.Kew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from RHS, one source
- Height
- 99 cm to 1.5 mRead from RHS, one source
- Spread
- 51 cm to 99 cmRead from RHS, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -5 °C (USDA zone 9a)Read from RHS, one source
Not known yet: water, flowers, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (11)
- French
- Lavatère maritime
- Czech
- slézovec přímořský
- Portuguese
- malva-marítima
- Russian
- Хатьма приморская
- Catalan
- Malva marina
- Hebrew
- מעוג ימי
- Swedish
- strandmalva
- Chinese (China)
- 滨海锦葵
- Italian
- Malvone delle rupi
- Chinese
- 海錦葵, 海花葵
- Slovak
- slez prímorský
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
- RHS, 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-SA
- 3D model: Malva subovata (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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