Flowers and leaves. Photo: Don Wood, Canberra, ACT

Flower and fruiting bodies. Photo: Forest and Kim Starr, Hawaii

Plant. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, near Hoskinstown

Common Name

Red-flowered Mallow, Carolina Mallow

Family

Malvaceae

Notes

Introduced annual or perennial forb, prostrate or to 25cm tall.  Leaves alternating along the stems, 3-4cm long, 20-30mm wide, flat, sparsely hairy, with broadly toothed lobes.  Flowers red to orange, with 5 petals, solitary on stems arising from the bases of the leaves. 

Description and photo in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales pages 481-482

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Modiola~caroliniana