Malva thuringiaca

’Barnsley’, a cultivar of L. × clementii Malva thuringiaca (syn. Lavatera thuringiaca), the garden tree-mallow, is a species of flowering plant in the mallow family Malvaceae, native to eastern Europe and southwestern Asia, from southern Germany south to Italy, and east to southern Russia, Kazakhstan, and Turkey.Malvaceae Pages: Herbaceous LavaterasFlora Europaea: Lavatera thuringiaca It is a herbaceous perennial plant growing to 1.8 m tall. The leaves are up to 9 cm long and broad, palmately lobed with three or five lobes, and downy with greyish hairs. The flowers are pink, 3–6 cm diameter, with five petals; they are produced throughout the summer.Blamey, M. & Grey-Wilson, C. (1989). Flora of Britain and Northern Europe.Huxley, A., ed. (1992). New RHS Dictionary of Gardening. Macmillan .Könemann (2004). Botanica. The Illustrated AZ of over 10000 garden plants and how to cultivate them. There are two subspecies: Malva thuringiaca subsp. thuringiaca – Most of the species' range, except as below, Upper leaves bluntly lobed Malva thuringiaca subsp. ambigua (DC.) Valdés – southern France, Italy, western Balkans, Upper leaves acutely lobed

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