Mirabilis nyctaginea (Michx.) MacMill.

Mirabilis nyctaginea (Michx.) MacMill.

NYCTAGINACEAE

- Four o'clock family (Angiosperms - Flowering plants)

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Name: Mirabilis nyctaginea (Michx.) MacMill.

Nomencl. ref.: Metasp. Minnesota Valley: 217 (1829)
Rank: species

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Common names

U.S. name: Heartleaf four o'clock

English name: heart-leaf four-o'clock

English name: heart-leaf umbrella-wort

Italian name: Bella di notte a fiori rosei

Grown habit: Forb/herb
Duration: Perennial

Synonyms:
= Allionia nyctaginea Michx.
= Mirabilis collina Shinners
= Oxybaphus nyctagineus (Michx.) Sweet

TAXONOMY

Kingdom: Plantae
Subkingdom: Tracheobionta
Superdivision: Spermatophyta
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Subclass: Caryophyllidae
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Nyctaginaceae
Genus: Mirabilis
Species:

Page counter: 610 ( AVG: 223.34 / 292.911 )

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Mirabilis nyctaginea
Credit: Photo by Franco Giordana

Mirabilis nyctaginea
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Padova, Orto botanico dell'Università di Padova, PD, Veneto, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Mirabilis nyctaginea
Credit: Photo by Villiam Morelli

Mirabilis nyctaginea
USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions. Vol. 2: 32.

Mirabilis nyctaginea
Credit: Photo by Villiam Morelli

Mirabilis nyctaginea
Credit: Photo by Franco Giordana

Mirabilis nyctaginea
Credit: Photo by Villiam Morelli

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Distribution in USA and Canada (*)
USA (AL, AR, CA, CO, CT, DC, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, MS, MT, NC, ND, NE, NH, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OH, OK, PA, RI, SD, TN, TX, UT, VA, VT, WA, WI, WV, WY), CAN (AB, BC, MB, ON, QC, SK)

Distributional map for Mirabilis nyctaginea (Michx.) MacMill.
Map for Mirabilis nyctaginea (Michx.) MacMill.
(*) USDA, NRCS. 2009. The PLANTS Database (http://plants.usda.gov, 28 August 2009). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA

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More species:
1) Mirabilis pauciflora (Buckley) Standl. [144]
2) Mirabilis pseudaggregata Heimerl [143]
3) Mirabilis rotata (Standl.) I.M. Johnst. [149]
4) Miriquidica deusta (Stenham.) Hertel & Rambold [796]
5) Miscanthidium capense (Nees) Stapf [173]
6) Miscanthus sacchariflorus (Maxim.) Franch. [438]
7) Miscanthus sinensis Andersson var. purpurascens (Andersson) Tzvel. [155]
8) Mitella diphylla L. [306]
9) Mitracarpus hirtus (L.) DC. [483]
10) Mnesithea tuberculosa (Nash) Koning & Sosef [164]

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