Seasonal Wild Flowers

Garden Tree-mallow

Lavatera thuringiaca sens. lat.

Malvaceae

Tree Lavateria, Mallow

July to November

The garden plant is found throughout the country.

The naturalised escape is thinly scattered throughout

the country.

See the BSBI distribution map for Garden Tree-mallow

It is a neophyte which is grown in gardens and has been

noted as naturalised since the 1730s.

It grows beside roads, paths and cycle tracks, and on

waste ground and brownfield sites.

Garden Tree-mallow is an attractive, rather woody,

tree-like, perennial herb, growing up to 2.5m.

Flowers are 5 to 6cm, with 5 overlapping, cleft,

rose pink, veined petals.

The white anthers appear before the multiple, lilac,

filamentous styles.

Leaves are green with a grey tinge, variously lobed

and up to 10cm.

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Garden Tree-mallow on a

brownfield site, Lancaster

Arrangement of flowers and leaves

Flower showing anthers

Styles above stamens and anthers

Leaf