Musk-mallow
Musk-mallow - Malva moschata
Medium to tall plant, the stem hairs often purple based. Leaves deeply and narrowly cut. Flowers 40 to 60 mm solitary and usually rose pink, only occasionally white.
Grassy places and scrub.
July and August.
Perennial.
Throughout Britain, but scarcer in the north and north Wales.
Occasional in Leicestershire and Rutland. In the 1979 Flora survey of Leicestershire it was found in 38 of the 617 tetrads.
Graham Calow
Stanton Lakes
05 July 2013
Graham Calow
Jubilee Walk Leire
21 August 2012
Peter Smith
Mountsorrel, Castle Hill
09 July 2011
Graham Calow
Sapcote
21 June 2014
white form
David Nicholls
Ratby Burroughs
04 October 2012
white form
Graham Calow
Stoney Stanton
12 July 2013
David Nicholls
Ratby Burroughs
17 November 2011
Lorraine Ellison
Holwell Nature Reserve, Brown's Hill Quarry
12 July 2013
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 Granitethorpe Sapcote SP 4953 9361(taken 2.7.2006).JPG)
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Mallow Rust
Puccinia malvacearum is a rust fungus that galls the leaves and petioles of members of the Malvaceae family including Hollyhock and Mallows (such as Common Mallow). There is no host alternation, and only telia are produced. Numerous yellow spots occur on the upper surfaces of the leaves, whilst on the underside of the leaves and on the petioles it causes hard rounded swellings, occasionally yellowish but most often reddish brown and later powder grey.