Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Caryophyllales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Mirabilis nyctaginea
FAMILY
Nyctaginaceae
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Wild Four-o'clock at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Mirabilis nyctaginea
FAMILY
Nyctaginaceae
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:
Wild Four-o'clock, Heart-leaved Umbrella-wort
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_alny_001_lvd
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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.
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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.
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Mirabilis nyctaginea
FAMILY
Nyctaginaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Mirabilis nyctaginea
FAMILY
Nyctaginaceae
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
3191
Forb
Perennial
Native: central North America
Documented growing wild in - NC -
Rare
Look for it on railroad embankments, other disturbed areas, per Weakley's Flora
Click here to see a more detailed map from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium,
or click here to see a map from SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite
Leaves have petioles.
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Pink to lavender
Bisexual
5-lobed campanulate, petaloid calyx subtended by 5-lobed calyx-like involucre
Petals absent
Inferior ovary
Flowers in dichasial panicles
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Achene
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