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White mallow

Eremalche exilis

White mallow
Photo: (c) Ken-ichi Ueda, some rights reserved (CC BY), CC BY 4.0
Family
Malvaceae (Mallow family)
Grows as
Annual
Native range
SE. California to Utah and NW. Mexico (to Chihuahua)
Climate
desert or dry shrubland

About

Eremalche exilis is a species of flowering plant in the mallow family known as white mallow or desert mallow. It is native to Baja California, Mexico and the southwestern United States where it grows in desert and other dry scrub habitats.

Other Eremalche plants

Parry's mallow · Desert fivespot · Mallow

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Eremalche exilis by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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