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Malva moschata

Perennial

HomePerennialMalva moschata

Grassy places, pastures, hedgebanks etc, especially on rich soils, avoiding acid soils.

Family: Malvaceae
Height: 0.8 m / 3 ft
Sun, Semi-shade
Light, Medium and Heavy Soil
Moist

Plant Rating

Edible Uses: 5 of 5
Medicinal Uses: 2 of 5
Other Uses: 2 of 5

Native Habitat

Musk Mallow Malva moschata native habitat is Grassy places, pastures, hedgebanks etc, especially on rich soils, avoiding acid soils.

Edible Uses

Leaves - raw or cooked. A mild pleasant flavour. The leaves are mucilaginous and fairly bland, we use them in bulk in summer salads. They make a very good perennial substitute for lettuce in a salad, producing fresh leaves from spring until the middle of summer, or until the autumn from spring germinating plants. Flowers - raw. A very decorative addition to the salad bowl, they have a very mild flavour. Seed - raw. Best used before it is fully mature, the seed has a pleasant nutty taste but it is rather small and fiddly to harvest.

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