PLANTS Profile for Mirabilis multiflora (Colorado four o'clock)

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PLANTS Profile

Mirabilis multiflora (Torr.) A. Gray
Colorado four o'clock

Symbol:

MIMU

Group:

Dicot

Family:

Nyctaginaceae

Duration:

Perennial

Forb/herb
Subshrub

L48

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Mirabilis multiflora (Torr.) A. Gray

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Distribution:
Mirabilis multiflora (Torr.) A. Gray


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USA (AZ, CA, CO, NM, NV, TX, UT)

Related Taxa:
Mirabilis multiflora (Torr.) A. Gray

View 16 genera in Nyctaginaceae, 29 species in Mirabilis or click below on a thumbnail map or name for species profiles.

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Introduced

Classification:
Mirabilis multiflora (Torr.) A. Gray

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Kingdom	Plantae – Plants
Subkingdom	Tracheobionta – Vascular plants
Superdivision	Spermatophyta – Seed plants
Division	Magnoliophyta – Flowering plants
Class	Magnoliopsida – Dicotyledons
Subclass	Caryophyllidae
Order	Caryophyllales
Family	Nyctaginaceae – Four o'clock family
Genus	Mirabilis L. – four o'clock
Species	Mirabilis multiflora (Torr.) A. Gray – Colorado four o'clock

More Accounts and Images:
Mirabilis multiflora (Torr.) A. Gray

View photographs from CalPhotos.

View species account and distribution map from Flora of North America (FNA).

View species account from ARS Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN).

View taxonomic account from Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) for ITIS Taxonomic Serial Number 19654.

View species account and distribution map from Jepson Interchange (University of California - Berkeley).

View species account and photographs from Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center Native Plant Information Network (NPIN).

View species account from Native American Ethnobotany (University of Michigan - Dearborn).

Time Generated: 09/25/2008 07:32 AM MDT