Taxon: Mirabilis nyctaginea (Michx.) MacMill.

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A declared aquatic or terrestrial noxious weed and/or noxious-weed seed in these U.S. states (see state noxious weed lists), with links to state information or web documents:

WA*.

ªAquatic.

*Terrestrial.

°In seed.

Link to noxious weed information from

Common names:

• heart-leaf four-o'clock   (Source: Global Comp Weeds ) – English
  
• heart-leaf umbrella-wort   (Source: Glea Cron ed2 ) – English
  
• wild four-o'clock   (Source: F Tex ) – English
  

Economic importance:

• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide AOSA Hb 25; Global Comp Weeds)
  

More:

View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Eastern Canada: Canada - Ontario, Quebec
  Western Canada: Canada - Alberta [s.], British Columbia [s.], Manitoba, Saskatchewan [s.]
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Connecticut, Indiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, West Virginia
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Wisconsin
  Northwestern U.S.A.: United States - Colorado [e.], Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming [e.]
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, District of Columbia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - New Mexico [e.], Texas
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah
  Mexico [n.e.?]

• naturalized elsewhere

References:

• Correll, D. S. & M. C. Johnston. 1970. Manual of the vascular plants of Texas.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada, ed. 2.
• Hickman, J. C., ed. 1993. The Jepson manual: higher plants of California.
• McGregor, R. L. et al. (The Great Plains Flora Association). 1977. Atlas of the Flora of the Great Plains.
• McGregor, R. L. et al. (The Great Plains Flora Association). 1986. Flora of the Great Plains.
• Randall, R. P. 2002. A global compendium of weeds.
• Scoggan, H. J. 1978–1979. The flora of Canada, 4 vol.
• Welsh, S. L. et al. 1987. A Utah flora. Great Basin Naturalist Mem. 9.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Mirabilis nyctaginea.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Mirabilis nyctaginea.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Mirabilis nyctaginea.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Allionia nyctaginea Michx. (basionym)
  

Check other web resources for Mirabilis nyctaginea (Michx.) MacMill.:

• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Check other web resources for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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