Malva_cretica
Malva cretica
Species of plant in the genus Malva
Malva cretica is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae, native to Tunisia, Sardinia, Corsica, Sicily, Italy, Albania, Greece, the eastern Aegean Islands, Crete, Cyprus, and Turkey, and introduced to France.[1] There may be a subspecies, Malva cretica subsp. althaeoides, present in Spain.[2]