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Malva moschata
Musk mallow is a hardy perennial with pink, scented summer flowers, grown as an ornamental and naturalised across temperate regions. It is easy to grow in ordinary garden soil in sun.
Malva moschata, the musk mallow or musk-mallow, is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae. It is a herbaceous plant producing pink, five-petaled flowers in summer. It is native to Eurasia and has been introduced elsewhere, being cultivated as an ornamental plant.
The species is native to Europe and southwestern Asia, from Spain north to the British Isles and Poland, and east to southern Russia and Turkey.
Malva moschata is widely grown as an ornamental plant for its attractive scented flowers, produced for a long period through the summer. Several cultivars have been selected for variation in flower colour, including 'Rosea' with dark pink flowers.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Malva moschata by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
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.
