Malvaceae
Island mallow
Malva assurgentiflora
- Family
- Malvaceae
- Genus
- Malva
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Common names
By language (3)
- Arabic
- خبازة تصاعدية الأزهار
- Chinese
- 朝天花葵
- English
- Island mallow, Mission mallow, Royal mallow
Synonyms
- Althaea assurgentiflora (Kellogg) Kuntze
- Althaea assurgentifolia (Kellogg) Kuntze
- Lavatera assurgentiflora Kellogg
- Lavatera assurgentiflora subsp. dendroidea (Greene) Cockerell
- Lavatera assurgentiflora subsp. glabra Philbrick
- Saviniona assurgentiflora (Kellogg) Greene
- Saviniona clementinae Greene
- Saviniona dendroidea Greene
- Saviniona reticulata Greene
- Saviniona suspensa Greene
Photos

Photo: Stan Shebs, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Curtis Clark, CC BY-SA 2.5, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Stan Shebs, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Stan Shebs, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Stan Shebs, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Stan Shebs, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons Photo: Cliff Hutson, CC BY-SA 2.5, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Frank Vincentz, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Frank Vincentz, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Frank Vincentz, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: J Brew, CC BY-SA 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons ![Island mallow: Malva assurgentiflora—island mallow. Included in the CNPS Inventory of Rare and Endangered Plants under its synonym Lavatera assurgentiflora on list [1B.1] (rar](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/J20160513-0036%E2%80%94Malva_assurgentiflora%E2%80%94RPBG_%2827060614155%29.jpg/1280px-J20160513-0036%E2%80%94Malva_assurgentiflora%E2%80%94RPBG_%2827060614155%29.jpg)
Photo: John Rusk from Berkeley, CA, United States of America, CC BY 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons
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Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.