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Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Caryophyllales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Mirabilis nyctaginea   FAMILY Nyctaginaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Mirabilis nyctaginea   FAMILY Nyctaginaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Mirabilis nyctaginea

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America

Mirabilis nyctaginea

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 067-01-002:

Mirabilis nyctaginea   FAMILY Nyctaginaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)

Oxybaphus nyctagineus

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Allionia nyctaginea

 

COMMON NAME:
Heart-leaved Umbrella-wort, Heartleaf Four-o’clock


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image of Mirabilis nyctaginea, Heart-leaved Umbrella-wort, Heartleaf Four-o’clock

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_alny_001_lvd

        

image of Mirabilis nyctaginea, Heart-leaved Umbrella-wort, Heartleaf Four-o’clock

Bruce A. Sorrie    bas_mirabilis_nyctaginea1

June    Lyon County    MN

This relative of the garden Four-o'clock may get to be 5' high, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).

image of Mirabilis nyctaginea, Heart-leaved Umbrella-wort, Heartleaf Four-o’clock

Bruce A. Sorrie    bas_mirabilisnyctaginea1b

June    Lyon County    MN

Beneath each cluster of pinkish-purple flowers is a cup-shaped involucre, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Mirabilis nyctaginea   FAMILY Nyctaginaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Mirabilis nyctaginea   FAMILY Nyctaginaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Mirabilis nyctaginea

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Mirabilis nyctaginea

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 067-01-002:
Mirabilis nyctaginea   FAMILY Nyctaginaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Oxybaphus nyctagineus

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Allionia nyctaginea

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

3191

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: Upland prairies, streambanks, riverbanks, also in disturbed situations (as eastwards) such as railroad embankments, other disturbed areas, per Weakley's Flora

Native: central North America

Rare

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LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite
Leaves have petioles.

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Pink to lavender
5-lobed campanulate, petaloid calyx subtended by 5-lobed calyx-like involucre
Petals absent
Inferior ovary
Bisexual

Flowers in dichasial panicles

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Achene

 

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