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Malacothamnus nuttallii; photograph Stan Shebs, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SAStan Shebs, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Malacothamnus nuttallii Abrams

Malvaceae · California

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Malacothamnus nuttallii, photograph Stan Shebs, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons 2 photographs ›

Summary

Malacothamnus nuttallii is a species of flowering plant in the mallow family known by the common name Ojai bushmallow. It is named after the botanist Thomas Nuttall. It is endemic to Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, and Ventura counties in California. It is sometimes treated as a variety of Malacothamnus fasciculatus but morphological, phylogenetic, and phenological evidence show it to be distinct. More on Wikipedia ›

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Malacothamnus nuttallii", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

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Climate across the habitat

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Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP.
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NativeCalifornia · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Kew's description“shrub or tree” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedGBIF's records not checked, as said under the name: so there are no points on the map, no map marker and no climate across the range; the range is Kew's. Not a statement that no record exists.

Photographs

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Photographs: Stan Shebs, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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Other Malacothamnus 19 in the reference

Malacothamnus abbottii Malacothamnus abbottii Abbot's bushmallow Photo: CC BY, Trevor Van LoonMalacothamnus aboriginum Malacothamnus aboriginum Indian Valley bush-mallow Photo: CC BY, Trevor Harding Malacothamnus arcuatus Malvaceae Malacothamnus astrotentaculatus Malvaceae Malacothamnus clementinus Malacothamnus clementinus San Clemente Island bush-mallow Photo: CC BY, Melanie J. DavisMalacothamnus davidsonii Malacothamnus davidsonii Davidson's bushmallow Photo: CC0, author not statedMalacothamnus densiflorus Malacothamnus densiflorus Yellow-stem bush-mallow Photo: CC BY, Ian McFaul Malacothamnus discombobulatus Malvaceae Malacothamnus eastwoodiae Malvaceae Malacothamnus enigmaticus Malacothamnus enigmaticus Enigmatic bush-mallow Photo: CC0, author not statedMalacothamnus fasciculatus Malacothamnus fasciculatus Mendocino bush-mallow Photo: CC BY, Sarah DillionMalacothamnus fremontii Malacothamnus fremontii Fremon's bushmallow Photo: CC0, author not stated all 20 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Malvastrum fasciculatum var. nuttallii; Sphaeralcea fasciculata var. nuttallii; Malvastrum nuttallii; Malacothamnus fasciculatus var. nuttallii; Malvastrum nesioticum subsp. nuttallii. (WCVP, RBG Kew)

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The record

Family
Malvaceae
Described by
Abrams
Native to
California
Records
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Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
Kew's names (WCVP) kew.names answeredas of 2026-06-04Kew's entry Malacothamnus nuttallii Abrams (plant_name_id 2504617), read from Kew's names file
GBIF species record gbif.species not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
Habitat climate climate not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked, and the habitat climate is read only from them
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22found by Kew's IPNI identifier 149682-2, POWO 149682-2
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist taxon inat.taxon not asked
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild not asked
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-22
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