Wild mallow
Pelargonium cucullatum (L.) L'Hér.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Little
- tall
- 1.5 m
- wide
- —
Geraniaceae
Also called Hooded Storksbill, Hooded-leaf Pelargonium, Hooded Leaf Pelargonium, Hooded crane's bill, Hooded-leaf pelargonium
Formerly Geraniospermum cucculatum, Geranium cucullatum
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
- ShrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- SubtropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- SW. Cape Prov.Kew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from Random Harvest, one source
- Height
- 1.5 mRead from Wikipedia and Random Harvest, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: Wikipedia 1–2 m; Random Harvest 1.5–1.5 m
- Water
- Little: takes droughtRead from Random Harvest, one source
- Flowers
- White, pink, purpleRead from Wikipedia and Random Harvest, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
Not known yet: spread, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (6)
- Afrikaans
- Wilde Malva, Wildemalva, wildemalva
- Italian
- Pelargonio cucullato
- Russian
- Пеларгония клобучковая
- Turkish
- Kukuleta Yapraklı Sardunya
- Chinese (China)
- 兜叶天竺葵
- Slovak
- muškát kornútkovitý
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
- Random Harvest, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Pelargonium cucullatum (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.