0 a plant that has pink or purple flowers and a stem with small hairs on it. There are many different types of mallow:
Cotton is related to mallows, hollyhocks, and hibiscus, all members of the mallow family (Malvaceae).
Hollyhock, thistle and mallow are all host plants for eggs of the painted ladies butterfly.
The seedlings sprouted, and dozens of the mallows are thriving today.
No breeze disturbed the budding magnolias or the tree mallows, or the azaleas for which the garden was noted.
They named the fabric colour "mauve", adopting the French name for the mallow flower whose natural hue resembled their artificial one.