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Mirabilis pudica
Barneby
No occurrences found
Family:
Nyctaginaceae
bashful four o'clock,
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bashful four o'clock
[
Mirabilis pudica var. pubescens
Kartesz & Gandhi]
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FNA
Resources
Richard W. Spellenberg in Flora of North America (vol. 4)
Herbs,
forming upright columnar clumps 3-5 dm diam., glabrous or densely pubescent.
Stems
3-6 dm.
Leaves
strongly ascending; petioles of proximal leaves 0.3-0.5 cm; blades of midstem leaves ovate to narrowly ovate, 3.5-6 × 2-3 cm, base acute to rounded, symmetric, apex acute.
Involucres:
peduncle 6-10 mm; involucres pendent, 12-21 mm; bracts 5, 50% connate, apex acute to widely ovate.
Flowers
6 per involucre; perianth usually creamy white, 1.2-1.5 cm.
Fruits
dark brown, with 10 slender, tan ribs occasionally evident at base, ellipsoid, 7-8 mm, smooth, glabrous, not secreting mucilage when wetted.
2
n
= 66. Flowering mid spring-early summer. Calcareous hills and flats in arid brushlands; 1000-1500 m; Nev.
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