Mirabilis microchlamydea

   
 

Overview and foliage of Mirabilis coccinea. Near San Miguel, Coahuila, Mexico. Photographs by Wynn Anderson.

 

Flowers. Near San Miguel, Coahuila, Mexico. Photographs by Wynn Anderson.

• Common English Names: None
• Common Spanish Names: None Known
• Scientific Name: Mirabilis microchlamydea
• Family: Nyctaginaceae (Four-o'clock Family)
• Geographic Range: Rocky hillside and silty flats, southern margin of the Chihuahuan Desert in Zacatecas, San Luis Potosí, and central highlands in Mexico.
• Description: Ascending to decumbent herbaceous perennial, stems slender and few branched, foliage generally glabrous to sparsely viscid-pubescent, glaucous gray-green, often tinged reddish to purplish above, pale discolor below. Flowers pink to reddish violet, usually 1 per involucre, borne on pubescent clusters.

Last Update: 1 Oct 2013