Malva moschata L.

MALVACEAE

- Mallow family (Angiosperms - Flowering plants)

Taxon Page:

Name: Malva moschata L.

Nomencl. ref.: Sp. Pl.: 690 (1753)
Rank: species

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Common names

U.S. name: Musk mallow

English name: musk mallow

French name: mauve musquée

Italian name: Malva muschiata

German name: Moschus-Malve

Grown habit: Forb/herb
Duration: Perennial

Synonyms:
= Malva moschata L. var. rosea hort.

Subspecies / Varieties:
1) Malva moschata L. var. rosea hort.

TAXONOMY

Kingdom: Plantae
Subkingdom: Tracheobionta
Superdivision: Spermatophyta
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Subclass: Dilleniidae
Order: Malvales
Family: Malvaceae
Genus: Malva
Species:

Page counter: 1757 ( AVG: 222.08 / 291.169 )

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Malva moschata
Credit: Photo by Giorgio Faggi

Malva moschata
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Cogne, località Valnontey, Giardino botanico alpino Paradisia., AO, Valle d'Aosta, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Malva moschata
Credit: Photo by Giorgio Faggi

Malva moschata
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Tartu, Orto Botanico., Estonia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Malva moschata
Credit: Photo by Enrico Romani

Malva moschata
Photo by Leo Michels. Usage: Public Domain

Malva moschata
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Serle, località Calamor., BS, Lombardia, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Malva moschata
Credit: Photo by Enrico Romani

Malva moschata
Credit: Photo by Giorgio Faggi

Malva moschata
Credit: Photo by Enrico Romani

Malva moschata
Credit: Photo by Daniela Longo

Malva moschata
Photo by Leo Michels. Usage: Public Domain

Malva moschata
Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".

Malva moschata
Credit: Photo by Giuseppe Trombetti

Malva moschata
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Parigi, Vincennes, Jardin botanique de la Ville de Paris/ Parc Floral de Paris, Francia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Malva moschata
Walter Hood Fitch - Illustrations of the British Flora (1924) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".

Malva moschata
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Santa Sofia, località Corniolo, Giardino botanico , Emilia-Romagna, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Malva moschata
Credit: Photo by Enrico Romani

Malva moschata
Credit: Photo by Daniela Longo

Malva moschata
Credit: Photo by Giorgio Faggi

Malva moschata
Credit: Photo by Enrico Romani

Malva moschata
Credit: Photo by Giorgio Faggi

Malva moschata
Hippolyte Coste - Flore descriptive et illustrée de la France, de la Corse et des contrées limitrophes, 1901-1906 - This image is in public domain because its copyright has expired.

Malva moschata
Credit: Photo by Enrico Romani

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- The New Plantfinder - Images and local names of vascular plants - Project Dryades / KeyToNature, coordinated by the Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste
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- Acta Plantarum - Forum and Image Gallery (Plants, Animals, Mushrooms)

Distribution in USA and Canada (*)
USA (CA, CT, DC, DE, ID, IL, IN, KY, MA, MD, ME, MI, MO, MT, NC, NH, NJ, NY, OH, OR, PA, RI, TN, VA, VT, WA, WI, WV, WY), CAN (BC, MB, NB, NF, NS, ON, PE, QC)

Distributional map for Malva moschata L.
Map for Malva moschata L.
(*) USDA, NRCS. 2009. The PLANTS Database (http://plants.usda.gov, 28 August 2009). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA

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More species:
1) Malva moschata L. var. rosea hort. [154]
2) Malva neglecta Wallr. [2590]
3) Malva nicaeensis All. [1023]
4) Malva parviflora L. [2830]
5) Malva rotundifolia L. [109]
6) Malva sylvestris L. var. mauritiana (L.) Boiss. [149]
7) Malvastrum aboriginum B.L. Rob. [145]
8) Malvastrum clementinum Munz & I.M. Johnst. [230]
9) Malvastrum fasciculatum (Nutt. ex Torr. & A. Gray) Greene [140]
10) Malvastrum mendocinense Eastw. [138]

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