Cheese Weed is one of several nicknames given to Malva neglecta, a winter-summer annual weed (also known as Common Mallow, Cheeses,
Cheese Mallow, Dwarf Mallow, Running Mallow, Malice, Round Dock, Button Weed, Round-Leaved Mallow and Low Mallow). “
Cheese Weed” can be found in fields, gardens and disturbed areas of turfgrass and thrives in much of the continental U.S. Malva neglecta is called "Cheese Weed" because of its fruit, which is shaped like a wheel of cheese.