Irish wildflowers BSBI map

Praire Mallow, Sidalcea malviflora
Photographs: Macroom, Co. Cork

Praire Mallow / Greek Mallow
Of Sidalcea malviflora origin
Family: Malvaceae

Flowering: June-August. Perennial. Introduced.

Terminal spikes of pink-purple flowers. The lower leaves are shallowly lobed, the upper leaves either deeply palmate or 3-7 lobed. Erect, slightly downy stems. Height to 1.5m.

An occasional garden escape, discard or relic of cultivation sometimes found on open ground and urban waste land.

Praire Mallow, Sidalcea malviflora

Praire Mallow, Sidalcea malviflora
Praire Mallow, Sidalcea malviflora

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