Assistantance please! Why plant is this!

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• Palustris Posts: 4,307

  September 2020

  It is a Mallow
  

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• tui34 Posts: 3,493

  September 2020

  It looks like Mauve and you can use the flowers in a tisane.  I think it is called Mallow in English.

  A good hoeing is worth two waterings.
  
  

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• Beany1971 Posts: 48

  September 2020

  Thanks @tuikowhai34 and @Palustris much appreciated 

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• Lyn Posts: 23,190

  September 2020

  If you leave some seed heads on it will self seed for next year. 

  Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 
  
  

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• granma Posts: 1,933

  September 2020

  I had this given by another gardener.he called it Zebra.......
   'Zebra' mallow

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• KeenOnGreen Posts: 1,831

  September 2020

  Malva Zebrina Surprise was the variety I had.  Absolutely smothered in flowers, but all of our plants got Mallow rust (which was completely new to me, and which looked awful), so sadly we had to get rid of them.  I wonder if the native Mallow is more resistant to it; probably.

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