冬葵 dong kui

Malva crispa (Linnaeus) Linnaeus.

Herbs annual. Leaf blade margin strongly wrinkled; blades on distal part of stem with lobes bluntly triangular. Flowers solitary or fascicled. Pedicels uniformly short or absent. Schizocarp ca. 8 mm in diam. Fl. Jun-Sep.

Cultivated, often becoming weedy. Gansu, Guizhou, Hunan, Jiangxi, Sichuan, Yunnan [India, Pakistan; Europe; invasive weed in North America].

This taxon is cultivated as an ornamental and as a salad crop.