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Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Full Sun to Partial Shade
Water Preferences: Mesic
Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 3 -40 °C (-40 °F) to -37.2 °C (-35)
Maximum recommended zone: Zone 10a
Plant Height: 24-36 inch
Plant Spread: 20 - 24 inch
Leaves: Unusual foliage color
Flowers: Showy
Flower Color: White
Flower Time: Late spring or early summer
Summer
Late summer or early fall
Fall
Uses: Cut Flower
Will Naturalize
Suitable as Annual
Wildlife Attractant: Bees
Butterflies
Propagation: Seeds: Provide light
Self fertile
Suitable for wintersowing
Sow in situ
Start indoors
Other info: only young seedlings can handle transplanting
Pollinators: Self
Bees

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Common names
  • Musk Mallow

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Location: Riverview, Robson, B.C. 
Date: 2016-06-19
 2:45 pm. Good foliage, good flower and long blooming.
Location: my garden, Gent, Belgium
Date: 2007-07-08
Location: Canada
Location: Riverview, Robson, B.C. 
Date: 2016-06-12
 5:54 pm. Like a mauve fairy, standing in the middle of the bloss
Location: Washington 8b
Date: 2017-06-28
Location: Washington 8b
Date: 2017-06-28
Location: Nora's Garden - Castlegar, B.C.
Date: 2016-06-12
 5:54 pm. A lovely early summer white in the garden.
Location: Darwell Rolling Woods, Alberta
Date: 2015-06-28
Location: My garden in Belgium
Date: 2010-08-22
Location: Washington 8b
Date: 2017-06-28
Location: In my garden in Kalama, Wa.
Date: 2008-06-28
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Location: In my garden in Kalama, Wa.
Date: 2008-06-28
  • Uploaded by Joy
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lovesblooms On February 28, 2017 Seeds germinated
lovesblooms On January 15, 2017 Seeds sown
w/s
lovesblooms On February 11, 2015 Seeds sown
winter sown
MrsBinWY On April 7, 2018 Potted up
5 (These germinated over a long period. The youngest is only a couple weeks up.)
MrsBinWY On February 24, 2018 Seeds germinated
1
MrsBinWY On February 18, 2018 Seeds sown
cool room temp; 25 seeds from ishareflowers
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