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§1 Plant

Malva sylvestris L.

vernacular high mallow — species · Malvaceae


USDA
MASY
GBIF
3152374
Rank
species
high mallow (Malva sylvestris)
Platephotograph · AlvesgasparCC BY-SA source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Forb/herb
Duration
Annual, Biennial, Perennial
Group
Dicot
Family
Malvaceae Juss.
Genus
Malva
§2a

Native status, by region

  • CAN Canada Introduced
  • L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
§2b

County-level range

· 86 counties across 16 states/territories
Legend Native · 0 Introduced · 86 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§3Cultivation

No cultivation specs.

USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.


§4Counties, by state

Recorded in 86 counties across 16 states/territories.

Arizona view state ↗ 1 I
Delaware view state ↗ 1 I
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 I
Kentucky view state ↗ 3 I
Louisiana view state ↗ 2 I
Maine view state ↗ 8 I
Massachusetts view state ↗ 7 I
Montana view state ↗ 7 I
New Hampshire view state ↗ 1 I
New Jersey view state ↗ 8 I
New York view state ↗ 14 I
North Carolina view state ↗ 2 I
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 17 I
Vermont view state ↗ 6 I
Virginia view state ↗ 5 I
West Virginia view state ↗ 3 I

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/MASY ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/3152374 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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