Propagation
Sow fresh seed during summer in pots and keep warm and moist. Transplant into a prepared bed after 2-3 true leaves appear and keep moist.

Note:
Marsh Mallow is used as a tea herb, medicinal herb and a salad herb. Young leaves, flowers and the nutty seeds are added to salads and fresh or dried leaves are used to make a tea. The roots can be sliced and cooked similar to potatoes and the herbal use includes helping respiratory problems.

Botanic information
Leaf: The dark green broad ovate to ovate leaves have 3-5 shallow lobes and the margins are irregular serrated. The petiole is short and the leaves are covered in stellate tomentose.
Note:
The leaves in the first year may have no lobes.

Flower: The pale pink to white cyathiform flowers have 5-spreading petals and pinkish exserted stamens. The pointed sepals are up to 6mm (Ľ in) long and the slender pedicle is long. They appear in a panicle amongst the foliage from midsummer to autumn.

Fruit: The flat rounded schizocarpic fruit is clasped by the calyx lobes and has up to 20 glaborous rugose mericarps that have a single cell with a single seed. They are indehiscent and are arranged in a whorl.