In West Africa, Jew's mallow is often used to prepare hearty soups that are served with fufu or pounded yam. The soup ...

"What plant is this?" they asked in the caption for a photo of a leafy green weed. "It has taken over our garden, and is still growing." Commenters agreed that it was mallow. Native to Eurasia, it is ...

Back in the summer of 2014, a botanist named Rachel Goad was on a canoe trip to see a very rare flower. One of the rarest on the continent, actually. It’s called the Kankakee mallow, and it’s native ...

With bold white trumpet-shaped blooms, crimson-eyed rose-mallow positively glows on wetland edges this time of year. The showy blooms, 4 to 7 inches across, can dominate a landscape in pink or white.

The summer of 2025 is rainy and humid. Lawns are thriving, require frequent mowing, and are emerald green in mid-July. Weeds are growing prolifically, and one of my flower beds has a fine groundcover ...

If you're cultivating plants with medicinal properties in your garden but haven't planted marsh mallow (Althaea officinalis L.), you're missing out on a versatile and surprisingly easy-to-grow ...

Living in an arid climate doesn't mean all you get to grow are cacti and succulents, especially if attracting birds is a top priority. There should be plenty of heat-tolerant perennials and shrubs on ...