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Common Mallow

Malva sylvestris

8,810Records since 2000
JunePeak month
104Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan74
Feb82
Mar107
Apr395
May818
Jun2,205
Jul1,755
Aug1,238
Sep781
Oct441
Nov205
Dec143

GBIF records by month, 2000–2025 (all years combined).

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Essex England623
2Worcestershire England512
3Suffolk England411
4Cambridgeshire England380
5Portsmouth England287
6Norfolk England260
7Oxfordshire England260
8Sefton England172
9Surrey England163
10Kent England153
11Halton England128
12Brighton and Hove England103
13Devon England90
14Dorset England82
15Southend-on-Sea England73
7,785 England128 Scotland171 Wales8 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 104 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
8,810
Peak month
June
Counties with records
104
Scientific name
Malva sylvestris
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
29,072
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Malvales
Family
Malvaceae
Genus
Malva
Name with authority
Malva sylvestris L.
Contributing datasets
46

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q156835 · GBIF 3152374