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Mirabilis alipes

About

Mirabilis alipes is a species of flowering plant in the four o'clock family known by the common name winged four o'clock. It is native to the southwestern United States from eastern California to western Colorado, where it grows in brush, woodland, and dry mountain slope habitat. It is a perennial herb growing in a clump near 40 centimetres tall and up to 80 centimetres wide. The leaves are oppositely arranged on the spreading stem branches. Each fleshy leaf has an oval or rounded blade up to 7 to 9 centimetres long and is hairless or sparsely hairy. The flowers occur in leaf axils on the upper branches. Five to nine flowers bloom from a cup-shaped involucre of several partly fused bracts. Each five-lobed flower is about 1.5 centimetres wide and magenta in color; cream-colored flowers are also known.

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Ecology

How it lives

Propagated by
Seed
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Name
Mirabilis alipes
Slug
mirabilis-alipes
Kingdom
Plantae
Family
Nyctaginaceae
Genus
Mirabilis
Species
alipes
Wikidata QID
Q939902
Propagule type
seed
Container suitable
No
Indoor suitable
No
OSSI pledged
No
Hazard level
1
Data completeness
43

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