Common name:
Musk mallow
Family:
Scientific name:
Malva moschata
Main flower color:
Range:
England, Wales, and low elevation regions in Scotland
Height:
Up to 80 cm
Habitat:
Dry grassland, roadsides, hedgebanks, often on sandy or clayish soils
Flowers:
The five petals are obovate, pale pink (sometimes pure white), crossed by faint, parallel, closely-spaced veins, while the five green sepals are broad and partially overlapping. Flowers are subtended by an epicalyx of six or more short, narrow lobes, and are produced as a terminal cluster, and also singly from the upper few leaf nodes
Leaves:
Stem leaves are deeply palmately lobed into pinnately lobed segments, while basal leaves are more rounded, with three shallow lobes
Season:
July to August
Rarity:
★★★★★
