| Family | Scientific Name | Common Name | Habitat | Distribution | Image |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Malvaceae | Abelmoschus | Okra, Gumbo |  (c) Bradley, Keith | ||
| Malvaceae | Abelmoschus esculentus | Okra, Gumbo, Gombo (frc) | Frequently cultivated in gardens, rarely persistent or self-seeding the year following. | Native of s. Asia. Reported for Arkansas (Serviss & Peck 2017). | (c) Bradley, Keith |
| Malvaceae | Abelmoschus manihot | Historically cultivated in our region; described by Small (1913a) as "in waste places and on banks or in cultivated grounds, Florida to Texas; naturalized from Asia". | |||
| Malvaceae | Abutilon | Abutilon, Indian-mallow, Indian-hemp |  (c) Fleming, Gary P. | ||
| Malvaceae | Abutilon abutiloides | Bushy Abutilon | Chaparral, disturbed areas. | S. Texas, s. New Mexico, and s. Arizona south to s. Mexico; Central America; n. South America; West Indies. | |
| Malvaceae | Abutilon berlandieri | Thornscrub, other open, dry habitats. | S. Texas south to Coahuila, Nuevo León, and Tamaulipas. | ||
| Malvaceae | Abutilon fruticosum | Texas Indian-mallow, Pelotazo | Prairies, slopes, limestone outcrops, other open, dry areas. | N. Arkansas, Oklahoma, and ne. New Mexico south through Texas and New Mexico to Mexico (Chihuahua, Coahuila, Colima, Jalisco, Nuevo León, Puebla, San Luis Potosí, Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Zacatecas); also in Africa and s. Asia. | |
| Malvaceae | Abutilon grandifolium | Hairy Indian-mallow | Disturbed areas. | Native of South America. |  (c) Bianchi, Laura Veronica - CC-BY-SA |
| Malvaceae | Abutilon hirtum | Disturbed areas. | Native of the Old World tropics. |  (c) M, Haneesh K - CC0 | |
| Malvaceae | Abutilon hulseanum | Disturbed areas, pine flatwoods (FL), palm groves and thickets (TX). | N. peninsular Florida (Alachua County) south to s. peninsular Florida; West Indies; South America. |  (c) johnyochum - CC-BY | |
| Malvaceae | Abutilon hypoleucum | Dry shrublands, canyons, palm groves, and disturbed open areas. | Rio Grande Valley of s. Texas and adjacent n. Mexico. | ||
| Malvaceae | Abutilon permolle | Velvety Abutilon, Coastal Plain Indian-mallow | Rockland hammocks, disturbed uplands. | C. and s. peninsular Florida; West Indies; s. Mexico, Central America. |  (c) Hammer, Roger L. |
| Malvaceae | Abutilon theophrasti | Velvetleaf, Pie-marker, Butterprint, China-jute | Crop fields, roadsides, disturbed areas. | Native of s. Asia. | (c) Fleming, Gary P. |
| Malvaceae | Abutilon trisulcatum | Amantillo | Subtropical woodlands and thickets, palm groves, shrublands. | S. Texas south to Mexico and Central America; West Indies. | |
| Malvaceae | Abutilon viscosum | Sticky Bastardia | Palm groves, tropical thickets, disturbed areas. | Lower Rio Grande Valley of s. Texas, south through Mexico and Central America to n. South America; West Indies. |  (c) Hill, Sonnia |
| Malvaceae | Abutilon wrightii | Rocky slopes, arroyos, washes, shrubland, thornscrub, and other dry, open habitats. | S., c., and w. Texas, s. New Mexico, and se. Arizona south to n. Mexico. | ||
| Malvaceae | Alcea | Hollyhock |  (c) Руденко, Илья - CC-BY | ||
| Malvaceae | Alcea rosea | Hollyhock, Amapola Grande | Roadsides, dumps, frequently cultivated, less commonly escaped or persistent. | Native of Turkey. Reported for Arkansas (Serviss & Peck 2017). | |
| Malvaceae | Alcea rugosa | Russian Hollyhock | Disturbed areas, cultivated and less commonly escaped or persistent. | Native of e. Europe and w. Asia. Reported for Maryland (FNA). |  (c) Kosterin, Oleg - CC-BY |
| Malvaceae | Allowissadula |  (c) Sorrie, Bruce A. - CC-BY | |||
| Malvaceae | Allowissadula holosericea | Open areas, roadsides. | Ec. Texas west to se. New Mexico, south to Mexico (Coahuila, Nuevo León, San Luis Potosí, Tamaulipas, others). | (c) Sorrie, Bruce A. - CC-BY | |
| Malvaceae | Allowissadula lozanoi | Scrub, disturbed areas. | S. Texas south to Tamaulipas and Nuevo León. |  (c) Wong, Michelle - CC-BY | |
| Malvaceae | Althaea | Marsh-mallow |  (c) Fleming, Gary P. | ||
| Malvaceae | Althaea cannabina |  (c) Cabot, Franck - CC-BY | |||
| Malvaceae | Althaea officinalis | Marshmallow, Guimauve (fr) | Marshes. | Native of Europe. |  (c) Fleming, Gary P. |
| Malvaceae | Anoda | Anoda |  (c) Fleming, Gary P. | ||
| Malvaceae | Anoda cristata | Spurred Anoda, Violeta | Cultivated and fallow fields, other disturbed areas. | Native of sw. United States, Mexico, and Central and South America. | (c) Fleming, Gary P. |
| Malvaceae | Anoda pentaschista | Open woodlands and tropical thickets, agricultural fields, disturbed areas. | S. Texas, w. Texas, s. New Mexico, s. Arizona, s. California south to s. Mexico. | ||
| Malvaceae | Ayenia | Ayenia, Kidneypetal |  (c) Bradley, Keith | ||
| Malvaceae | Ayenia euphrasiifolia ssp. euphrasiifolia | Eyebright Ayenia | Pine rocklands, marl prairies, disturbed areas over limestone. | S. peninsular Florida; Cuba. |  (c) Bradley, Keith |
| Malvaceae | Ayenia limitaris | Rio Grande Ayenia, Tamaulipan Kidneypetal | Subtropical evergreen/deciduous woodlands on alluvial deposits on floodplains and terraces, on calcareous or clay soils, in the Rio Grande Valley. | Extreme s. Texas (Cameron, Hidalgo, and Willacy counties), Tamaulipas, Coahuila, Jalisco, Zacatecas, Aguascalientes. | |
| Malvaceae | Ayenia pilosa | Dwarf Ayenia | Edges of thickets. | S. Texas, w. Texas, s. New Mexico, south to n. Mexico. | |
| Malvaceae | Billieturnera |  (c) Wong, Michelle - CC-BY | |||
| Malvaceae | Billieturnera helleri | Billieturnera, Copper Sida | Saline soils. | S. Texas south to ne. Mexico (Coahuila, Nuevo León, Tamaulipas). | (c) Wong, Michelle - CC-BY |
| Malvaceae | Blanchardia | ||||
| Malvaceae | Blanchardia clypeata ssp. clypeata | Congo Mahoe | Riparian woodlands. | Se. Texas, ne. and se. Mexico to Central America (Belize, Guatemala); West Indies. |  (c) Boerekamps, Jean-Paul - CC0 |
| Malvaceae | Brachychiton | ||||
| Malvaceae | Brachychiton populneus | ||||
| Malvaceae | Callirhoe | Poppy-mallow |  (c) Cressler, Alan M. | ||
| Malvaceae | Callirhoe alcaeoides | Pale Poppy-mallow, Plains Winecup | Calcareous prairies, glades, and other open habitats. | E. Nebraska south through e. and Oklahoma to c. Texas; disjunct and scattered eastward in Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas, nw. Louisiana, Illinois, s. Indiana, c. Kentucky, c. Tennessee, and c. Alabama (Dorr 1990). |  (c) Campos, Aidan |
| Malvaceae | Callirhoe bushii | Bush's Poppy-mallow | Prairies, glades, bottomland forests. | Sw. Iowa south through Missouri and e. Kansas to Arkansas and Oklahoma. |  © Joel Smith |
| Malvaceae | Callirhoe digitata | Winecup, Fringed Poppy-mallow, Finger Poppy-mallow | Prairies and calcareous glades. | Missouri, and se. Kansas south to nw. Louisiana and s. Oklahoma. |  (c) Aaron, Nathan - CC-BY |
| Malvaceae | Callirhoe involucrata var. involucrata | Purple Poppy-mallow | Upland prairies, disturbed areas. | Illinois, sw. Minnesota, Nebraska, and Wyoming south to Arkansas, nw. Louisiana, Texas, and ne. New Mexico; adventive eastwards at isolated locations. |  (c) Finzel, Brian - CC-BY-SA |
| Malvaceae | Callirhoe involucrata var. lineariloba | Grasslands and open woodlands on gravelly or sandy soil, disturbed areas, roadsides. | Kansas and Colorado south through Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Texas to Mexico. | ||
| Malvaceae | Callirhoe leiocarpa | Tall Poppy-mallow, Tall Winecup | Prairies, roadsides, oak woodlands. | Se. Kansas south through Oklahoma to s. Texas. | |
| Malvaceae | Callirhoe papaver | Woods Poppy-mallow | Longleaf pine woodlands, dry hammocks, glades, barrens, prairies, forest openings. | N. peninsular Florida, Panhandle Florida, and sw. Georgia (Carter, Baker, & Morris 2009) west to e. Texas and s. Arkansas (Dorr 1990). |  (c) Sorrie, Bruce A. - CC-BY |
| Malvaceae | Callirhoe pedata | Palmleaf Poppy-mallow | Prairies, open woodlands, and (eastwards, in nw. GA) occasionally mowed roadside and adjacent powerline right-of-way, with other species of calcareous prairie habitats, one occurrence recorded to date. | W. Arkansas and Oklahoma, south to sc. Texas; disjunct in nw. Georgia. The nw. Georgia occurrence was previously misidentified as C. digitata Nuttall. |  (c) Sorrie, Bruce A. - CC-BY |
| Malvaceae | Callirhoe scabriuscula | ||||
| Malvaceae | Callirhoe triangulata | Sand Poppy-mallow, Clustered Poppy-mallow | Longleaf pine sandhills, sandy scrub, and other dry, open habitats. | Sc. North Carolina south to Georgia (and n. Florida?), and west to ec. Mississippi; also sw. Wisconsin and ne. Iowa south to s. Indiana, s. Illinois, and se. Missouri. I've seen at least one specimen from North Carolina in Lincoln County annotated by L. Dorr (Malvales systematist, Smithsonian) from "…on the Catawba…." (Curtis s.n.; NYBG 03876325); it is unlikely still present there. |  (c) Marcum, Paul |
| Malvaceae | Cienfuegosia | Flymallow |  (c) Bradley, Keith | ||
| Malvaceae | Cienfuegosia drummondii | Yellow Fugosia | Open areas over heavy and saline soils. | Se. and s. Texas; South America (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay). |  (c) Hulsberg, Hugo - CC0 |
| Malvaceae | Cienfuegosia yucatanensis | Yucatan Flymallow, Yellow Hibiscus | Coastal rock barrens, rockland hammock edges and gaps. | S. Florida (Monroe County keys); West Indies (Bahamas, Cuba); Mexico (Campeche, Quintana Roo, Yucatán). | (c) Bradley, Keith |
| Malvaceae | Corchorus | Jute |  (c) Shugart, Jody - CC-BY | ||
| Malvaceae | Corchorus aestuans var. aestuans | Jute | Roadsides, other disturbed ground. | Native of Asia. Reported for Thomas County, Georgia (Carter, Baker, & Morris 2009). | (c) Shugart, Jody - CC-BY |
| Malvaceae | Corchorus hirsutus | Woolly Corchorus, Jackswitch, Cadillo, Mallet | Disturbed areas. | Native of West Indies and northern coast of South America. |  (c) Hammer, Roger L. |
| Malvaceae | Corchorus hirtus | Hairy Jute, Red Jute, Orinoco Jute, Moralia | Disturbed areas. | Native of Mexico, Central America, South America, and West Indies. Nativity in Texas and Arizona is disputed and uncertain. |  (c) Romero, Abraham Sánchez - CC-BY |
| Malvaceae | Corchorus siliquosus | Slippery Bur, Smooth Corchorus | Roadsides, disturbed rockland hammocks, other disturbed upland areas. | Native of West Indies, Mexico, Central America and perhaps s. Florida. |  (c) Gallagher, Judy - CC-BY-SA |
| Malvaceae | Corchorus tridens | Horn-fruited Jute. | Ballast waif. | Native of the Paleotropics. | |
| Malvaceae | Firmiana | Chinese Parasol-tree, Phoenix Tree |  (c) Weakley, Alan - CC0 | ||
| Malvaceae | Firmiana simplex | Chinese Parasol-tree, Phoenix Tree | Forests, edges, disturbed areas; planted and naturalizing. | Native of se. Asia, probably China. | (c) Weakley, Alan - CC0 |
| Malvaceae | Gossypium | Cotton |  (c) Campos, Aidan | ||
| Malvaceae | Gossypium barbadense | Sea-island Cotton, Egyptian Cotton, Pima Cotton, Extra-long-staple Cotton | Historically cultivated, presumably no longer present in our area. | Native of South America, Central America, and the West Indies. |  (c) Velasco, Daniel - CC-BY |
| Malvaceae | Gossypium hirsutum | Upland Cotton, Short-staple Cotton | Coastal hammocks, rockland hammock edges, coastal rock barrens (in FL peninsula), disturbed areas, a frequently cultivated crop, especially in sandy soils of the Coastal Plain, rarely adventive or a waif where grown. | Native of Central America, South America, the West Indies, and s. Florida (see comments). | (c) Campos, Aidan |
| Malvaceae | Grewia | ||||
| Malvaceae | Grewia asiatica | Phalsa | Disturbed areas. | Native of s. and se. Asia. Discovered in Florida by K. Bradley. |  (c) Bradley, Keith |
| Malvaceae | Grewia biloba var. parviflora | Grewia | Roadbanks, apparently locally escaping from horticultural plantings. | Native of China. |  (c) 들꽃ㅅr랑 - CC0 |
| Malvaceae | Herissantia | Bladdermallow |  (c) Bradley, Keith | ||
| Malvaceae | Herissantia crispa | Bladdermallow, Friega Plato | Rockland hammocks, coastal hammocks, coastal berms, coastal rock barrens (FL), chaparral, thornscrub (TX), disturbed areas over limestone. | S. Florida; West Indies; s. Texas west to s. California, south through Mexico and Central America to South America. | (c) Bradley, Keith |
| Malvaceae | Hermannia | Burstwort |  © Adam Black | ||
| Malvaceae | Hermannia texana | Texas Burstwort, Texas Hermannia | Upland prairies and juniper-oak woodlands, Tamaulipan scrub, dunes. | C. and s. Texas south to Mexico (Coahuila, Nuevo León, San Luis Potosí, Tamaulipas). | © Adam Black |
| Malvaceae | Hibiscus | Hibiscus, Rose-mallow |  (c) Oglesby, Emily | ||
| Malvaceae | Hibiscus aculeatus | Savanna Hibiscus, Comfort-root | Wet to moist pine savannas, swamp forests, coastal marsh transitions, dry sandy or loamy soils of maritime forest edges. | Se. North Carolina south to sc. peninsular Florida, west to Louisiana and extreme e. Texas. |  (c) McLaurin, Lauren - CC-BY |
| Malvaceae | Hibiscus martianus | Heartleaf Hibiscus, Tulipán del Monte, Mountain Rosemallow | Thornscrub and open woodlands. | S. Texas to w. Texas, south to c. Mexico. |  (c) Hill, Sonnia |
| Malvaceae | Hibiscus mutabilis | Dixie Rose-mallow; Confederate Rose-mallow | Disturbed areas, persistent (at least) from horticultural use. | Native of e. Asia. |  (c) funnieanimals - CC0 |
| Malvaceae | Hibiscus poeppigii | Poeppig’s Hibiscus, Cupidito | Rockland hammocks, coastal rock barrens. | S. Florida (Miami-Dade and Monroe counties); West Indies; Mexico (Campeche, Chiapas, Quintana Roo, San Luis Potosí, Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Yucatán), Central America (Guatemala). |  (c) Hammer, Roger L. |
| Malvaceae | Hibiscus radiatus | Monarch Hibiscus | Disturbed areas. | Native of Asia. |  (c) Vinod, Paulmathi - CC-BY |
| Malvaceae | Hibiscus rosa-sinensis | Garden Hibiscus, Garden Rose-mallow, Shoeblack-plant | Disturbed areas; apparently of garden origin. |  (c) Z, Daniel - CC-BY | |
| Malvaceae | Hibiscus schizopetalus | Fringed Rose-mallow, Chinese-lantern | Disturbed areas. | Native of Africa. |  (c) deepachandran - CC-BY-SA |
| Malvaceae | Hibiscus striatus ssp. lambertianus | Striped Rose-mallow | Marshes, especially coastal. | Se. and s. Texas; s. Mexico (Tabasco), Central America, and South America; West Indies (Cuba, Jamaica). |  (c) Doe, Susie - CC-BY-NC-SA, permission granted to NCBG |
| Malvaceae | Hibiscus syriacus | Rose-of-Sharon, Shrubby Althaea | Escaped or persistent after cultivation, often spreading by rhizomes. | Native of e. Asia. |  (c) Ware, Richard & Teresa - CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG |
| Malvaceae | Hibiscus trionum | Flower-of-an-Hour, Venice Mallow, Bladder Ketmia | Fields, roadsides, railroad yards, disturbed areas. | Native of Europe or Africa. Reported for Ware County, Georgia (Carter, Baker, & Morris 2009). |  (c) Fleming, Gary P. |
| Malvaceae | Iliamna | Globe-mallow |  (c) Fleming, Gary P. | ||
| Malvaceae | Iliamna corei | Peters Mountain Mallow | In shallow soil in crevices of outcroppings of Clinch sandstone, near the summit of Peters Mountain. | Endemic to the summit of Peters Mountain, Giles County, Virginia. |  (c) Fleming, Gary P. |
| Malvaceae | Iliamna remota | Kankakee Globe-mallow | Shores and gravel bars along rivers, and along railroad embankments. | W. Virginia; nw. Indiana and ne. Illinois. |  (c) threelark - CC-BY |
| Malvaceae | Kosteletzkya | Seashore-mallow |  (c) Bradley, Keith | ||
| Malvaceae | Kosteletzkya depressa | White Fen-rose | Tidal marshes, coastal berms. | S. Florida; West Indies; s. Texas south through Mexico and Central America to South America. |  (c) Bradley, Keith |
| Malvaceae | Kosteletzkya pentacarpos | Seashore-mallow, Saltmarsh-mallow, Fen-rose | Brackish to freshwater tidal marshes. | New York (Long Island) south to s. Florida, west to Texas; West Indies (Cuba); also early introduced in Europe, Linnaeus's name based on its occurrence in Venice). |  (c) Fleming, Gary P. |
| Malvaceae | Kosteletzkya smilacifolia | Florida Seashore-mallow | Freshwater marshes. | Endemic in peninsular Florida. |  (c) Berry, Trent - CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG |
| Malvaceae | Krapovickasia | Physalastrum | Oak woodlands, grassy areas. | Native of n. Mexico (Nuevo León, San Luis Potosí, Tamaulipas). | |
| Malvaceae | Krapovickasia physaloides | Oak woodlands, grassy areas. | Native of n. Mexico (Nuevo León, San Luis Potosí, Tamaulipas), and maybe Texas. | ||
| Malvaceae | Malachra | Leafbract |  (c) Sarabia, Francisco Farriols - CC-BY | ||
| Malvaceae | Malachra alceifolia | Yellow Leafbract | Disturbed coastal uplands. | Native of West Indies, Mexico, Central America, and South America. Reported for Miami-Dade County (Lange, Bradley, & Sadle [in prep.]). |  (c) Faccenda, Kevin - CC-BY |
| Malvaceae | Malachra capitata | Malva de Caballo | Palm groves, thickets, fields, disturbed areas. | S. Florida (possibly introduced only); West Indies, se. Texas south through Mexico and Central America to South America. |  (c) Keith, Eric - CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG |
| Malvaceae | Malachra urens | Tidal marshes, disturbed areas. | S. Florida; West Indies (Cuba, Puerto Rico). |  (c) Horn, Jay - CC-BY | |
| Malvaceae | Malva | Mallow |  (c) Fleming, Gary P. | ||
| Malvaceae | Malva alcea | Vervain Mallow | Cultivated as a horticultural ornamental, escaped or persistent to roadsides, disturbed areas, old house-sites. | Native of Eurasia. |  (c) scrofa, Sus - CC-BY |
| Malvaceae | Malva moschata | Musk Mallow, Rose Mallow | Pastures, roadsides, barnyards. | Native of Europe. |  (c) Sorrie, Bruce A. - CC-BY |
| Malvaceae | Malva neglecta | Common Mallow, Cheeses | Pastures, roadsides, barnyards. | Native of Europe. |  (c) Fleming, Gary P. |
| Malvaceae | Malva nicaeensis | Bull Mallow | On ballast, disturbed area. | Native of Mediterranean Europe. | |
| Malvaceae | Malva parviflora | Little Mallow, Small-flowered Mallow | Disturbed areas. | Native of Mediterranean Europe. |  (c) Lindqvist, Annika - CC-BY |
| Malvaceae | Malva pusilla | Small Mallow, Dwarf Mallow, Cheeses | Pastures, roadsides, barnyards. | Native of Europe. | |
| Malvaceae | Malva setigera | Rough Marshmallow | Waif on ballast. | Native of Mediterranean Europe and w. Asia. | |
| Malvaceae | Malva sylvestris | Common Mallow, High Mallow, Cheeses | Pastures, roadsides, barnyards. | Native of Europe. |  (c) Wolkenberg, Sandy - CC-BY |
| Malvaceae | Malva trimestris | Rose-mallow | Disturbed areas. | Native of Mediterraean Europe and w. Asia. | |
| Malvaceae | Malva verticillata | Whorled Mallow | Disturbed areas. | Native of e. Asia. Reported as an introduction as far south as s. Pennsylvania (Rhoads & Klein 1993; Rhoads & Block 2007), Maryland, West Virginia (Strausbaugh & Core 1978), Delaware, and District of Columbia. | |
| Malvaceae | Malvaceae | Mallow Family | (c) Bradley, Keith | ||
| Malvaceae | Malvastrum | False-mallow |  (c) Bradley, Keith | ||
| Malvaceae | Malvastrum americanum | American False-mallow, Malva Loca, Malvilla, Babosita | Palm groves (TX), tropical thickets, disturbed areas. | Florida, e. and s. Texas south through Mexico and Central America to South America; West Indies; also in the Old World tropics. The few collections from Florida, all from disturbed habitats, and far distance from closest populations in Texas suggest a convoluted nativity status in Florida. |  (c) Brinker, Samuel - CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG |
| Malvaceae | Malvastrum aurantiacum | Wright's Mallow | Stream banks, floodplain prairies, pastures. | Endemic to Texas. |  (c) Keith, Eric - CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG |
| Malvaceae | Malvastrum corchorifolium | Disturbed areas, coastal hammocks. | Florida and Alabama south to Central America; West Indies. | ||
| Malvaceae | Malvastrum coromandelianum | Three-lobe Mallow | Coastal hammocks, disturbed areas; eastwards a waif on ballast or wool waste. | Native of tropical America (Texas to Argentina). Northern occurrences, such as in Pennsylvania (Rhoads & Klein 1993) and New Jersey (Kartesz 1999), represent old records of ballast or wool waste waifs. |  (c) Campos, Aidan |
| Malvaceae | Malvastrum hispidum | Yellow Mallow, Hairy False-mallow | Limestone barrens. | Kentucky, w. Virginia (Lee County [Fleming & Ludwig 1996]), c. Tennessee, and n. Alabama; e. Indiana; Illinois west to Iowa, Kansas, and Oklahoma. |  (c) Marcum, Paul |
| Malvaceae | Malvaviscus | Wax-mallow |  (c) Bradley, Keith | ||
| Malvaceae | Malvaviscus arboreus | Disturbed areas, waif or weakly spreading from horticultural use. | Native of New World tropics. | (c) Bradley, Keith | |
| Malvaceae | Malvaviscus drummondii | Wax-mallow, Turk's-cap Mallow, Drummond Wax-mallow | Open areas, streambanks, disturbed areas. | Native west of the Mississippi, in Louisiana, s. Arkansas, e. and c. Texas south into n. Mexico. First reported for North Carolina and South Carolina by Leonard (1971b). Although Turner & Mendenhall (1993) cite Leonard’s specimens as M. arboreus var. arboreus, they were correctly determined by Leonard as M. drummondii. |  (c) Ware, Richard & Teresa - CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG |
| Malvaceae | Malvaviscus penduliflorus | Turk’s-cap Mallow, Mazapan | Disturbed areas. | Native of tropical America. | |
| Malvaceae | Malvella | Alkali-mallow | |||
| Malvaceae | Malvella lepidota | Scurfy Alkali-mallow | Saline soil of mud flats and shores. | Nc. Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico south to n. Mexico. | |
| Malvaceae | Malvella leprosa | Broadleaf Alkali-mallow | Heavy, saline soils. | W. Kansas, Utah, Idaho, and Washington south to c. Texas, w. Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Mexico, and South America. | |
| Malvaceae | Malvella sagittifolia | Arrowleaf Alkali-mallow | Saline soils, mudflats. | Se. Texas, n. Texas, s. Colorado and Arizona south to n. Mexico. | |
| Malvaceae | Melochia | Chocolate-weed |  (c) Bradley, Keith | ||
| Malvaceae | Melochia corchorifolia | Chocolate-weed | Sandy fields, especially in low, wet places. | Native of the Old World tropics. |  (c) Diamond, Alvin - CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG |
| Malvaceae | Melochia nodiflora | Disturbed uplands. | Native of the Neotropics. | ||
| Malvaceae | Melochia pyramidata var. pyramidata | Pyramid-flower, Anglepod Melochia, Smooth Melochia | Disturbed areas. | S. Florida; West Indies; Louisiana and Texas south through Mexico and Central America to South America. |  (c) Bradley, Keith |
| Malvaceae | Melochia spicata var. spicata | Bretonica-peluda | Calcareous pine flatwoods, disturbed areas. | Probably native in peninsular Florida, and widely distributed in tropical America, the original distribution somewhat uncertain. | (c) Bradley, Keith |
| Malvaceae | Melochia tomentosa var. tomentosa | Teabush, Woolly Pyramidbush, Velvety Melochia, Broomwood | Pine rocklands (FL), open subtropical woodlands and brushlands (TX). | S. Florida (where perhaps extirpated); West Indies; s. Texas, Mexico, Central America, and South America. |  (c) Bradley, Keith |
| Malvaceae | Meximalva | Meximalva |  © Adam Black | ||
| Malvaceae | Meximalva filipes | Texas-fan, Meximalva | In grasslands, shrublands, and woodlands on limestone or caliche. | C. and s. Texas, ne. Mexico. | © Adam Black |
| Malvaceae | Modiola | Bristly-mallow |  (c) Bradley, Keith | ||
| Malvaceae | Modiola caroliniana | Bristly-mallow, Pata de Chula (es), Mauve (frc) | Lawns, roadsides, disturbed areas, pondshores, edges of brackish marshes; probably adventive in our area from an original native range in South America. | The original distribution unclear: sometimes considered as ranging as a native from South Carolina south to Florida, west to Texas, south into the tropics, and adventive northward, but probably wholly introduced in the southeastern United States from a native distribution in South America. |  (c) Bradley, Keith |
| Malvaceae | Muenchhusia | ||||
| Malvaceae | Muenchhusia coccinea | Scarlet Hibiscus | Marshes (including inland salt marshes), swamp forests, roadside swales, cultivated as an ornamental in yards, in much of our area presumably introduced from farther south, but sometimes appearing native. | S. Georgia and s. Alabama south to s. Florida, west to s. Alabama, and s. Mississippi (a wider distribution is the result of naturalization from horticultural use). Reported from e. Maryland and Coastal Plain of Delaware (W. Longbottom, pers.comm. 2022). |  (c) Oglesby, Emily |
| Malvaceae | Muenchhusia dasycalyx | Neches River Hibiscus | Alluvial marshes. | Endemic to e. Texas (Cherokee, Harrison, Houston, and Trinity counties). |  (c) Wong, Michelle - CC-BY |
| Malvaceae | Muenchhusia grandiflora | Large-flowered Hibiscus, Swamp Hibiscus | Tidal marshes, swamps, lakeshores, wet pine flatwoods and savannas. | E. Georgia (Chatham Co., adjacent to the South Carolina border) (Jones & Coile 1988) and historically apparently in se. South Carolina (Mellichamp 1889) south to s. Florida, west to e. Louisiana; w. Cuba. |  (c) Bradley, Keith |
| Malvaceae | Muenchhusia laevis | Smooth Rose-mallow, Halberd-leaved Marsh-mallow, Showy Hibiscus | Freshwater marshes, exposed riverbanks, sandbars. | S. Pennsylvania south to Florida Panhandle, west to Texas; north in the interior to around the Great Lakes. |  (c) Ware, Richard & Teresa - CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG |
| Malvaceae | Muenchhusia moscheuta ssp. 1 [=leucophylla] | Coastal prairies. | W. Louisiana west to se. Texas. |  (c) Cauley-March, Hannah | |
| Malvaceae | Muenchhusia moscheuta ssp. lasiocarpa | Western Rose-mallow | Marshes, swamps. | Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, and New Mexico south to Panhandle Florida (?), Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, and Chihuahua (Villaseñor 2016). |  (c) Marcum, Paul |
| Malvaceae | Muenchhusia moscheuta ssp. moscheuta | Eastern Rose-mallow, Mallow Rose | Marshes, swamps, river sandbars. | E. Massachusetts west to Michigan, south to c. peninsular Florida and e. Texas. | (c) Oglesby, Emily |
| Malvaceae | Napaea | Glade-mallow |  (c) Lange, Corey - CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG | ||
| Malvaceae | Napaea dioica | Glade-mallow | Floodplains. | Scattered from Maryland, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, sw. Wisconsin, and se. Minnesota; disjunct in w. Virginia. The original distribution of this scarce species has been much debated; see the interesting discussion of this species’ occurrence in Virginia in Wieboldt et al. (1998). | (c) Lange, Corey - CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG |
| Malvaceae | Pavonia |  (c) Corder, Brandon | |||
| Malvaceae | Pavonia hastata | Swampmallow | Mesic flatwoods, roadsides, disturbed areas. | Native of South America. In se. Georgia (Jones & Coile 1988). |  (c) Gibson, Clint - CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG |
| Malvaceae | Pavonia lasiopetala | Wright's Pavonia | Rocky woodlands. | Edwards Plateau and adjacent areas, n. Mexico (Coahuila, Nuevo León). |  (c) Campos, Aidan |
| Malvaceae | Pavonia paludicola | Mangrove Mallow | Tidal swamps, tidal marshes, mangroves, disturbed wetlands. | S. Florida; West Indies; Central America and South America. |  (c) Hammer, Roger L. |
| Malvaceae | Pavonia spinifex | Gingerbush, Pavonia | Hammocks. | E. South Carolina; ne. Florida and peninsular Florida; Bermuda; Bahamas; West Indies. Reported for the vicinity of Charleston, South Carolina on the basis of a specimen collected by Bachman (Chapman 1878). Small (1933) considered this species as likely native, at least in Florida. |  (c) Powell, Eric M - CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG |
| Malvaceae | Pseudabutilon | ||||
| Malvaceae | Pseudabutilon umbellatum | Dry shrublands, adjacent disturbed areas. | S. Texas, Mexico, Central America, and South America; West Indies. | ||
| Malvaceae | Rhynchosida |  (c) Carnahan, Sue - CC-BY | |||
| Malvaceae | Rhynchosida physocalyx | Spearleaf Sida | Disturbed areas, forests, woodlands, prairies. | Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona south to Mexico; disjunct in South America. | (c) Carnahan, Sue - CC-BY |
| Malvaceae | Ripariosida | Virginia-mallow | A monotypic genus, a robust perennial herb, of nc. United States. |  (c) Fleming, Gary P. | |
| Malvaceae | Ripariosida hermaphrodita | Virginia Sida, Virginia-mallow | Sandy or rocky areas along riverbanks. | C. Pennsylvania and Maryland west to s. Ohio, south to District of Columbia, West Virginia, w. Virginia, and ne. Tennessee; disjunct in nw. Ohio and ne. Indiana (where presumably native) and with additional collections from e. Massachusetts, New York (Long Island), s. New Jersey, s. Michigan, and s. Ontario (where presumably adventive or persistent from horticultural use) (Spooner et al. 1985). |  (c) Fleming, Gary P. |
| Malvaceae | Sabdariffa | ||||
| Malvaceae | Sabdariffa acetosella | African Rose-mallow, Redleaf Hibiscus, Cranberry Hibiscus, False Roselle | Pine flatwoods, disturbed areas. | Native of Africa. |  (c) Linda, ANatureGal - CC-BY-ND |
| Malvaceae | Sabdariffa bifurcata | Rough Pink Hibiscus | Habitat unknown in FL, probably cultivated only. | Native of West Indies, Central America, and South America. |  (c) Gapp, Wes - CC-BY |
| Malvaceae | Sabdariffa cannabina | Kenaf, Brown Indian-hemp | Disturbed areas. | Native of subsaharan Africa. |  (c) Liptrot, Mark - CC-BY-SA |
| Malvaceae | Sabdariffa furcellata | Lindenleaf Rose-mallow | Florida scrub, scrubby flatwoods, mesic flatwoods, depression marshes, dry disturbed areas. | Peninsular Florida (east coast from Brevard County south to Broward County); West Indies; Mexico, Central America, and South America. |  (c) Ward, Scott G |
| Malvaceae | Sabdariffa gossypiifolia | Roselle, Jamaican Sorrel | |||
| Malvaceae | Sida | Sida |  (c) Bradley, Keith | ||
| Malvaceae | Sida abutilifolia | Creeping Sida, Spreading Fanpetals | Rockland hammocks (FL), coastal rock barrens (FL), rocky or sandy grasslands or woodlands, dry disturbed areas. | S. Florida; West Indies; sw. United States (Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona) south through Mexico and Central America to South America. Sometimes (unwarrantedly) considered all or partly introduced in the United States. | |
| Malvaceae | Sida antillensis | West Indian Sida | Disturbed coastal uplands, sandy areas. | S. Florida (where possibly only introduced); West Indies; Central America. | |
| Malvaceae | Sida ciliaris | Bracted Sida, Fringed Sida, Salmon Sida | Dry open areas, disturbed areas. | E., se., and s. Texas south to Mexico; West Indies; South America. Found as an apparent waif in Mobile County, Alabama by Howard Horne (pers.comm., 2025). | |
| Malvaceae | Sida cordata | Waif on ore piles. | Native of tropical and subtropical Asia. |  (c) Lin, Cheng-Tao - CC-BY | |
| Malvaceae | Sida cordifolia | Malva Blanca, Greatleaf Sida, Llima, Flannelweed | Disturbed sandhills, disturbed hammocks, roadsides, disturbed areas. | Native of Old World tropics (perhaps India). |  (c) Horn, Jay |
| Malvaceae | Sida elliottii var. elliottii | Coastal Plain Sida | Stream banks, sandy openings, pineland pond margins, limestone glades and barrens, mesic hammocks. | Var. elliottii ranges from se. Virginia south to n. Florida, west to Louisiana and north in the interior to c. Tennessee and se. Missouri. |  (c) Aaron, Nathan |
| Malvaceae | Sida elliottii var. parviflora | Chapman’s Sida | Pine rocklands, mesic pine flatwoods, disturbed uplands. | Peninsular Florida; se. Texas south into montane e. Mexico to Guatemala. | |
| Malvaceae | Sida glabra var. glabra | Smooth Sida | Agricultural and urban areas. | Native of Neotropics. |  (c) González, Oscar - CC-BY-SA |
| Malvaceae | Sida lindheimeri | Showy Sida | Beaches, open sandy areas, open woodlands, scrub, disturbed areas. | Native of Texas south into Mexico (Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León, Tamaulipas, Veracruz). | |
| Malvaceae | Sida linifolia | Flaxleaf Sida | On ballast, last collected in 1886 and seemingly only a waif. | Native of West Indies. |  (c) P, Ben - CC-BY |
| Malvaceae | Sida littoralis | Florida Sida | Maritime hammocks, disturbed open areas. | Apparently endemic to c. peninsular Florida (Lee County, Captiva and La Costa islands) | |
| Malvaceae | Sida planicaulis | Flatstem Sida, Brazilian Wireweed | Disturbed oak hammocks. | Native of Brazil. | |
| Malvaceae | Sida rhombifolia var. rhombifolia | Arrowleaf Sida, Axocatzin, Gombo de Sainte Jeanne (frc) | Roadsides, fields, gardens, disturbed areas. | Southeastern North America west to Texas, south through Mexico, Central America, and n. South America; West Indies; the original distribution of this species is uncertain, but Fryxell & Hill (2015m) and POWO (2024) suggest it is native to the Old World tropics. |  (c) Hill, Sonnia |
| Malvaceae | Sida rubromarginata | Redleaf Sida | Disturbed areas. | Endemic to peninsular Florida (reported from Leon, Hillsborough and Sarasota counties). | |
| Malvaceae | Sida santaremensis | Brazilian Sida, Moth Fanpetals | Sandy disturbed areas. | Native of South America. | |
| Malvaceae | Sida spinosa | Prickly Sida, Prickly-mallow, False-mallow, Herbe à serpent (frc) | Disturbed areas, wet fields. | Native of the Neotropics and Paleotropics. |  (c) Ware, Richard & Teresa - CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG |
| Malvaceae | Sida tragiifolia | On limestone or caliche. | S. Texas, w. Texas, and s. Arizona south to n. Mexico (Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León, Sonora, Tamaulipas). | ||
| Malvaceae | Sida ulmifolia | Broomweed, Wireweed | Disturbed areas. | Native of the Tropics, the original northern limit uncertain. Usually considered native in peninsular Florida, but the area of nativity uncertain. |  (c) Horn, Jay |
| Malvaceae | Sida urens | Bristly Sida, Tropical Fanpetals | Disturbed areas. | Native of tropical America. Discovered as an introduction in Broward County in 2008 (Fryxell & Hill 2015m). |  (c) Lourencini, Helio - CC-BY |
| Malvaceae | Sidastrum | ||||
| Malvaceae | Sidastrum paniculatum | Cadillo Liso | Shrublands and coastal thickets. | S. Texas, Mexico, Central America, and South America; West Indies; Africa. | |
| Malvaceae | Sphaeralcea | Globemallow |  (c) Sorrie, Bruce A. - CC-BY | ||
| Malvaceae | Sphaeralcea angustifolia var. angustifolia | Copper Globe-mallow | Sandy or rocky soils, disturbed areas. | W. Nebraska, s. Colorado, s. Utah, Nevada, and California south to s. Mexico. | (c) Sorrie, Bruce A. - CC-BY |
| Malvaceae | Sphaeralcea bonariensis | Waif on ballast. | Native of Argentina. | ||
| Malvaceae | Sphaeralcea coccinea var. coccinea | Scarlet Globe-mallow, Cowboy's Delights | Sandy and gravelly open areas, roadsides. | Manitoba west to British Columbia, south to Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and n. Mexico (Chihuahua, Nuevo León). |  © Rich Reaves |
| Malvaceae | Sphaeralcea hastulata | Spear Globemallow | Plains, grasslands or shrublands, especially in caliche, saline, or gyp areas. | Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona south to Mexico. |  © John French |
| Malvaceae | Sphaeralcea lindheimeri | Woolly Globemallow | Sandy soils. | S. Texas. |  (c) Wong, Michelle - CC-BY |
| Malvaceae | Sphaeralcea pedatifida | Palmleaf Globemallow | Thornscrub in sandy and rocky areas. | S. Texas south to Coahuila and Tamaulipas. | |
| Malvaceae | Talipariti | Mahoe |  (c) Machado, Siddarth - CC-BY | ||
| Malvaceae | Talipariti pernambucense | Mahoe, Sea Hibiscus | Coastal strands, coastal berms. | Native of tropical America (probably not native to s. Florida). | (c) Machado, Siddarth - CC-BY |
| Malvaceae | Talipariti tiliaceum | Yellow Mahoe | Coastal strands, coastal berms, hammocks, disturbed areas. | Native of tropical Asia. |  (c) Thomas - CC-BY |
| Malvaceae | Thespesia | Portia-tree |  (c) Bradley, Keith | ||
| Malvaceae | Thespesia populnea | Portia-tree, Seaside Mahoe | Coastal strands, coastal berms, hammocks, disturbed areas. | Native of tropical Asia. | (c) Bradley, Keith |
| Malvaceae | Tilia | Basswood, Whitewood, Linden, Linn |  (c) Sorrie, Bruce A. - CC-BY | ||
| Malvaceae | Tilia ×europaea | Common European Linden, Lime | Suburban woodlands; uncommonly planted, rarely naturalizing. | Native of Europe. | |
| Malvaceae | Tilia americana var. americana | Northern Basswood | Rich coves, rocky slopes, metabasalt boulderfields, rich north-facing river bluffs, calcareous Coastal Plain ravines. | New Brunswick and Manitoba south to e. Virginia, w. North Carolina, and Oklahoma. | (c) Sorrie, Bruce A. - CC-BY |
| Malvaceae | Tilia americana var. caroliniana | Southern Basswood, Carolina Basswood | Mesic forests, in the outer Coastal Plain usually associated with shell deposits, Indian shell middens, or underlying coquina limestone ("marl"). | North Carolina south to c. peninsular Florida and west to Oklahoma and c. Texas. |  (c) Weakley, Alan |
| Malvaceae | Tilia americana var. heterophylla | Mountain Basswood, White Basswood, Linn | Rich coves and mesic to dry slopes (the drier sites usually on limestone), often one of the most abundant trees in Southern Appalachian cove forests. | Centered in the Southern Appalachians: sw. Pennsylvania and West Virginia south to c. North Carolina, wc. Georgia, Florida Panhandle, and westward as disjunct populations to the Ozarkian Highlands of s. Missouri and n. Arkansas. |  (c) Ware, Richard & Teresa - CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG |
| Malvaceae | Tilia cordata | Small-leaved Linden, Small-leaved Lime | Suburban woodlands, uncommonly planted, rarely naturalizing. | Native of Europe. Reported as naturalizing into suburban woodlands in Arlington County, Virginia, Fairfax County, Virginia, and City of Alexandria, Virginia (Wright et al. 2023; R.H. Simmons, pers.comm., 2024). |  (c) Marcum, Paul |
| Malvaceae | Tilia petiolaris | Pendant Silver Linden | From horticultural use. | Native of se. Europe and w. Asia. | |
| Malvaceae | Tilia platyphyllos | Large-leaved Linden, Large-leaved Lime | Uncommonly planted, rarely and sparsely naturalizing in our area. | Native of Europe. |  (c) Nesterova, Svetlana - CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG |
| Malvaceae | Tilia tomentosa | Silver Lime | |||
| Malvaceae | Triumfetta |  (c) Horn, Jay | |||
| Malvaceae | Triumfetta pentandra | Five-stamen Burbark | Disturbed areas. | Native of Africa. |  (c) Taylor, Robert - CC-BY |
| Malvaceae | Triumfetta rhomboidea | Diamond Burbark | Disturbed areas. | Native of tropical America. |  (c) Helme, Nick - CC-BY-SA |
| Malvaceae | Triumfetta semitriloba | Mosote, Burweed | Disturbed areas. | Native of tropical America. In sw. Georgia (Jones & Coile 1988) and s. peninsular Florida. |  (c) Horn, Jay |
| Malvaceae | Urena | Caesarweed |  (c) Keim, Mary - CC-BY-NC-SA, permission granted to NCBG | ||
| Malvaceae | Urena lobata | Caesarweed, Bur Mallow, Congo Jute | Swamps, moist flatwoods, etc., roadsides, vacant lots; an especially bad weed of moist habitats. | Native of se. Asia. Introduced to se. South Carolina via landscaping plantings, spreading to vacant lots and roadsides (P. McMillan, pers. comm., 2005). | (c) Keim, Mary - CC-BY-NC-SA, permission granted to NCBG |
| Malvaceae | Urena sinuata | Disturbed areas, also as a waif on ballast. | Native of tropical s. Asia. Reported for Broward County, Florida (Lange, Bradley, & Sadle [in prep.]). |  (c) box, renjus - CC-BY | |
| Malvaceae | Waltheria | Raichie |  (c) Bradley, Keith | ||
| Malvaceae | Waltheria bahamensis | Pine rocklands, hammocks, beaches. | S. Florida; Bahamas. |  (c) Ward, Scott G - CC-BY | |
| Malvaceae | Waltheria indica | Sleepy Morning, Basora Prieta, Uhaloa, Hierba del Soldado | Pine rocklands, marl prairies, coastal grasslands, coastal rock barrens, rocky or sandy open areas (TX), disturbed uplands. | Florida peninsula; West Indies; S. and se. Texas and s. Arizona south through Mexico and Central America to South America; extensive in the Paleotropics. |  (c) Franck, Alan R. - CC-BY-NC |
| Malvaceae | Wissadula | Velvetleaf |  (c) cfa - CC-BY-NC | ||
| Malvaceae | Wissadula hernandioides | Big Yellow Velvetleaf | Tropical woodlands (TX), disturbed areas. | Native of tropical America. | |
| Malvaceae | Wissadula parvifolia | Endemic to s. Texas. |  (c) cfa - CC-BY-NC | ||
| Malvaceae | Wissadula periplocifolia | Open woodlands and sacahuista grasslands. | S. Texas south through Mexico to South America; West Indies. |