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§1 Plant

Mirabilis laevis (Benth.) Curran var. villosa (Kellogg) Spellenb.

vernacular wishbone-bush — variety · Nyctaginaceae


USDA
MILAV
GBIF
3700241
Rank
variety
wishbone-bush (Mirabilis laevis var. villosa)
Platephotograph · Wayfinder_73CC BY-NC-ND source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Forb/herb, Subshrub
Duration
Perennial
Group
Dicot
Family
Nyctaginaceae Juss.
Genus
Mirabilis
§2a

Native status, by region

  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b

County-level range

· 23 counties across 2 states/territories
Legend Native · 23 Introduced · 0 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§3Cultivation

No cultivation specs.

USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.


§4Counties, by state

Recorded in 23 counties across 2 states/territories.


§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/MILAV ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/3700241 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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