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§1 Plant

Mirabilis longiflora L. var. wrightiana (A. Gray ex Britton & Kearney) Kearney & Peebles

vernacular sweet four o'clock — variety · Nyctaginaceae

USDA
MILOW
GBIF
3086235 syn.
Rank
variety
sweet four o'clock (Mirabilis longiflora var. wrightiana)
Platephotograph · Alvaro Rivera Rojas (brújula de aves)CC BY-NC source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

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

Native status, by region

  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b

County-level range

· 15 counties across 3 states/territories
Legend Native · 15 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 15 counties across 3 states/territories.

Arizona view state ↗ 9 N ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Texas view state ↗ 2 N ▾

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

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

plants.usda.gov/MILOW ↗

GBIF Backbone

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

gbif.org/species/3086235 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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