Mirabilis laevis

Mirabilis laevis, the desert wishbone-bush,[1] is a recently redefined species of flowering plant in the four o'clock family. Distribution is in the Southwestern United States and northwest Mexico.

Mirabilis laevis
Mirabilis laevis var. crassifolia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Nyctaginaceae
Genus: Mirabilis
Species:
M. laevis
Binomial name
Mirabilis laevis

Distribution and taxonomy

Mirabilis laevis now includes the common California chaparral plant known as wishbone bush (formerly Mirabilis californica), and several very similar relatives previously classified as separate species and now as varieties.[2][3]

Varieties

References

  1. USDA, NRCS (n.d.). "Mirabilis laevis". The PLANTS Database (plants.usda.gov). Greensboro, North Carolina: National Plant Data Team. Retrieved 12 July 2015.
  2. (Choisy) Spellenberg, 2001
  3. UC—Jepson: Mirabilis laevis . accessed 6.16.2012
  4. UC—Jepson: Mirabilis laevis var. crassifolia . accessed 6.16.2012
  5. UC—Jepson: Mirabilis laevis var. retrorsa . accessed 6.16.2012
  6. UC—Jepson: Mirabilis laevis var. villosa . accessed 6.16.2012
  • Spellenberg, R. & S. R. Rodriguez Tijerina. (2001). Geographic variation and taxonomy of North American species of Mirabilis, section Oxybaphoides (Nyctaginaceae). Sida 19:3 539–570.


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