Vintage Medicinal Herb Mallow Flower Botanical Postcard

Capture the charm of yesterday with Charmed Life's vintage herbal postcards featuring German lithographs of medicinal plants and herbs from Franz Eugen Köhler’s "Medizinal-Pflanzen" or "Medicinal Plants" published in 1887. Malva sylvestris is a species of the mallow genus Malva in the family of Malvaceae and is considered to be the type species for the genus. Known as common mallow to English-speaking Europeans, it acquired the common names of cheeses, high mallow and tall mallow as it migrated from its native home in Western Europe, North Africa and Asia through the English-speaking world. M. sylvestris is a vigourously healthy plant with showy flowers of bright mauve-purple, with dark veins; a handsome plant, often standing 3 or 4 feet high and growing freely in meadows, hedgerows and in fallow fields.