Red-flowered Mallow - introduced (*Modiola caroliniana)

Family: Malvaceae (Mallow family).

Native of South America.

Occurrence: A widespread weed of waste areas, gardens and roadsides.

Identification:

• it is a red-flowered mallow
• it is a prostrate plant with long, spreading stems
• the leaves are round and toothed
• the flowers are red
• the fruit are prickly.

Photo 1: Red-flowered Mallow. Vaughan.
2: Red-flowered Mallow growing in a brick drain.
3: The fruit turn black.
4, 5: A lawn weed. Castlemaine. Lower four: All Castlemaine.