Malva neglecta

Prostrate annual, stems to c. 1 m long. Leaves ± orbicular, cordate at base, c. 2–6 cm long and wide, entire or very shallowly 5-lobed, margins crenate or toothed, surfaces downy, upper with simple hairs, lower with denser, mainly stellate hairs. Epicalyx-lobes linear, 3–5 mm long, attached at base of calyx; calyx-lobes acute, divided to c. midway, 5–7 mm long; petals c. 2–2.5 times as long as calyx, pink to white. Fruit 5–8 mm diam., fruiting calyx slightly enlarged with lobes erect to slightly incurved, mericarps c. 15, smooth, rounded dorsally, adjacent margins ± smooth, appearing as broad radiating grooves on entire fruit, glabrous to densely short-hispid. Flowers mainly Oct.–May.