Mirabilis jalapa |
Mirabilis oxybaphoides |
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four o'clock, four o'clock flower, four o'clock umbrella-wort, marvel of peru, wishbone bush |
smooth spreading four-o'clock |
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Stems | decumbent to prostrate, often tangled in other vegetation, 2–12 dm, herbaceous, puberulent in lines or throughout, glandular or not. |
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Leaves | spreading; petiole 0.5–3.5 cm; blade broadly deltate or ovate, 1.5–8 × 1–7.5 cm, fleshy, base cordate, apex usually acute or acuminate (rounded), surfaces glabrous or pubescent, and then often glandular. |
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Inflorescences | loosely and narrowly cymose; involucres solitary or clustered at ends of branches, or solitary in axils, 5–9 mm, lobes triangular, base 50–70% of height. |
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Flowers | 3 per involucre; perianth purplish to pale pink (white), 0.5–0.9 cm. |
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Fruits | olive, dark brown and black-mottled, or evenly black, sometimes faintly marked with 5 shallow grooves, broadly obovoid to nearly spheric, 2.5–3.5 mm, smooth or slightly rugose. |
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2n | = 60. |
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Mirabilis jalapa |
Mirabilis oxybaphoides |
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Phenology | Flowering spring–fall. | |
Habitat | Brush or boulders, banks in woodlands, moist areas | |
Elevation | 1400-2600 m (4600-8500 ft) | |
Distribution |
AL; AR; AZ; CA; CT; DC; FL; GA; IL; IN; KY; LA; MD; MS; NC; NJ; NM; NV; NY; OH; OK; PA; RI; SC; TX; UT; VA; VT; Mexico [Introduced in North America and elsewhere]
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AZ; CO; NM; NV; OK; TX; UT; Mexico (Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León)
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Discussion | Varieties 2 (1 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 4, p. 42. | FNA vol. 4, p. 47. |
Parent taxa | Nyctaginaceae > Mirabilis > sect. Mirabilis | Nyctaginaceae > Mirabilis > sect. Oxybaphoides |
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Synonyms | Quamoclidion oxybaphoides, Allionia oxybaphoides | |
Name authority | Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 1: 177. (1753) | (A. Gray) A. Gray: in W. H. Emory, Rep. U.S. Mex. Bound. 2(1): 173. (1859) |
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