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Malva nicaeensis (bull mallow)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Malva nicaeensis is a species of flowering plant in the mallow family known by the common names bull mallow and French mallow. It is native to Eurasia and North Africa, and it is known on other continents as an introduced species and sometimes a weed.
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Attributes

Edible [1]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Flower Type [1]  Hermaphrodite
Hazards [1]  Although we have seen no reports of toxicity for this species, when grown on nitrogen rich soils (and particularly when these are cultivated inorganically), the leaves of some species tend to concentrate high levels of nitrates in their leaves; The leaves are perfectly wholesome at all other times.
Lifespan [1]  Perennial
Pollinators [1]  Insects, Lepidoptera
Structure [2]  Herb
Usage [1]  Cream, yellow and green dyes can be obtained from the plant and the seed heads; A decoction of the roots has been used as a hair rinse;
Height [1]  20 inches (0.5 m)
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Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Moray Firth 373987 Scotland, United Kingdom  
Parco Del Somma-Vesuvio e Miglio D'Oro National Park II 33648 Italy
Solway Firth 107829 England/Scotland, United Kingdom

Ecosystems

Predators

Heliopetes ericetorum (Large white skipper)[3]
Pyrgus communis (Checkered skipper)[3]
Strymon melinus (cotton square borer)[4]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

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♦ 1Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 2Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 3HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
♦ 4Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0