Malva Weinmanniana
''Malva'' is a genus of herbaceous annual plant, annual, biennial plant, biennial, and perennial plants in the family Malvaceae. It is one of several closely related genera in the family to bear the common English name mallow. The genus is widespread throughout the temperate, Subtropics, subtropical and Tropics, tropical regions of Africa, Asia and Europe. The leaves are alternate, palmately lobed. The flowers are from 0.5–5 cm diameter, with five pink, lilac, purple or white petals. Etymology The word "mallow" is derived from Old English "mealwe", which was imported from Latin "malva", cognate with Ancient Greek μαλάχη (malakhē) meaning "mallow", both perhaps reflecting a Mediterranean term. The colour mauve was in 1859 named after the French language, French name for this plant. Uses Ornamental plant Several species are widely grown as garden flowers. Very easily grown, short-lived perennials are often grown as ornamental plants. Food Many species are ed ...
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Malva Sylvestris
''Malva sylvestris'' is a species of the mallow genus ''Malva'' in the family of Malvaceae and is considered to be the type species for the genus. Known as common mallow to English-speaking Europeans, it acquired the common names of cheeses, high mallow and tall mallow (mauve des bois by the French) as it migrated from its native home in Western Europe, North Africa and Asia through the English-speaking world. ''M. sylvestris'' is a vigorous plant with showy flowers of bright mauve-purple, with dark veins, standing high and growing freely in meadows, hedgerows and in fallow fields. Common names It is one of several species of different genera sometimes referred to as Creeping Charlie, a term more commonly applied to ''Glechoma hederacea'' (ground ivy). Description One of the major areas which Malva Sylvestris grow is north east and central of Iran . Also in North Africa, biennial in the Mediterranean and a perennial elsewhere. It can be straight or decumbent, branched, ...
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