Interesting. We had a similar looking plant in NZ with cute, tiny orange/red flowers. I've looked it up and it's called creeping mallow. Would never have thought to try eating it. I haven't noticed mallow around where I live now (except the marsh-mallows in the supermarket) but will look out for it. What colour flowers have you seen on it? Thanks for sharing and hope you're feeling better now.
Almost back to full health, thank you! I've seen little purple flowers on the mallow growing near me. But when I was in the UK recently I saw mallow with larger purple flowers. Apparently white flowers are also common. I have not spotted any creeping mallow before! According to Diego Bonetto (great source on edible weeds) it's not a true mallow but is - his words - "somewhat edible".
Interesting. We had a similar looking plant in NZ with cute, tiny orange/red flowers. I've looked it up and it's called creeping mallow. Would never have thought to try eating it. I haven't noticed mallow around where I live now (except the marsh-mallows in the supermarket) but will look out for it. What colour flowers have you seen on it? Thanks for sharing and hope you're feeling better now.
Almost back to full health, thank you! I've seen little purple flowers on the mallow growing near me. But when I was in the UK recently I saw mallow with larger purple flowers. Apparently white flowers are also common. I have not spotted any creeping mallow before! According to Diego Bonetto (great source on edible weeds) it's not a true mallow but is - his words - "somewhat edible".
https://www.diegobonetto.com/blog/on-mellow-mallow-the-edible-weed#:~:text=Not%20pink%2C%20not%20purple%2C%20RED,still%20is%20%E2%80%93somewhat%2D%20edible.