Common Mallow
Malva sylvestris L.
- light
- —
- water
- —
- tall
- 1.1 m
- wide
- —
Malvaceae
Also called High mallow, Large flowered mallow, Cheeses, High Malva, Common mallow
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
- Biennial or perennialKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Macaronesia, Europe to C. Asia and W. HimalayaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Height
- 91 cm to 1.2 mRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Flowers
- PurpleRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: light, spread, water, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Dutch
- Groot kaasjeskruid
- Spanish
- Malva de campo, malva, botones
- German
- Wilde Malve, Große Käsepappel
- Catalan
- Malva comuna, Malva de camp
- French
- grande mauve, Mauve sylvestre, Mauve des bois
- Italian
- Malva selvatica
- Russian
- Мальва лесная, Просвирник лесной
- Czech
- sléz lesní
- Chinese
- 歐錦葵
- Swedish
- Rödmalva
- Japanese
- ウスベニアオイ
- Danish
- Almindelig katost
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
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, Public domain
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- 3D model: Malva sylvestris (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.