Mirabilis longiflora

Mirabilis longiflora
long tubular flowers
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Core eudicots
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Nyctaginaceae
Genus: Mirabilis
Species: M. longiflora
Binomial name
Mirabilis longiflora
L.

Mirabilis longiflora, sweet four o'clock,[1] is a species of flowering plant native to the southwestern United States from Arizona to Texas and northern Mexico. It is night-flowering, the flowers are mostly white, strongly scented, and long and narrow in form, approaching 17 centimeters in maximum length.

References

  1. "Mirabilis longiflora". Natural Resources Conservation Service PLANTS Database. USDA. Retrieved 13 July 2015.
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