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MALVACEAE (MALLOW FAMILY) 



Stem erect, smooth or nearly so, and 

 one to three feet tall. Leaves one to 

 four inches in length, oblong to lance- 

 shape, irregularly toothed, and narrowed 

 quite abruptly to the slender petioles, 

 which are about half as long as the 

 blades ; stipules conspicuous, narrowly 

 lance-shape to linear, and longer than 

 the petioles. Flowers axillary, growing 

 singly or in small clusters, yellow, about 

 an inch broad, with five unequal petals 

 and a strongly ridged, five-lobed calyx. 

 Carpels several to ten, arranged about a 

 central axis, netted and wrinkled and 

 with two incurving beaks at the top. 

 (Fig. 196.) 



Means of control 



Prevent seed development. In culti- 

 vated ground tillage should be continued 



FIG. 196. Paroquet Bur longer than usual, in order to hinder the 

 maturing of a late crop of seeds. In 



other places the weed should be frequently and closely cut 



throughout the growing season. 



COMMON MALLOW 

 Mdlva rotundifblia, L. 



Other English names: Dwarf Mallow, Running Mallow, Round 



Dock, Cheeses, Shirt-button Plant, Maul. 

 Introduced. Biennial or perennial. Propagated by seeds. 

 Time of bloom : May to October. 

 Seed-time: June to November. 



Range: Throughout North America except the extreme North. 

 Habitat: Cultivated ground; waste places. 



The deep, branching roots of this plant seem to spread nearly 

 as far beneath the soil as its creeping stems spread above it ; the 

 latter are six inches to nearly two feet long, round, smooth, branched 



