Red Four-o'clock (Mirabilis coccinea)

   

Mountain Four-o'clock (Mirabilis coccinea), near Gila Hot Springs, Grant Co., New Mexico. Photograph by Wynn Anderson.

 

Flowers. Near Gila Hot Springs, Grant County, New Mexico. Photographs by Wynn Anderson.

• Common English Names: Red Four-o'clock
• Common Spanish Names:
• Scientific Name: Mirabilis coccinea
• Family: Nyctaginaceae (Four-o'clock Family)
• Geographic Range: Southern California, southern Nevada, Arizona, southwestern New Mexico, and Sonora, Mexico.
• Description: Perennial herb, erect to ascending, leaves linear to linear-lanceolate, opposite, ascending at 45 degrees or greater from stem; flowers bright red to purplish red, 1 to 3 emerging from small, green involucres, not significantly enlarging in fruit. Commonly displaying mostly cleistogamous flowers.

Last Update: 1 Oct 2013