Mirabilis nyctaginea

Common Name: 
wild four-o'-clock, heart-leaved umbrellawort
Scientific Name: 
Mirabilis nyctaginea (Michx.) Macmill.
Family Name: 
Nyctaginaceae - Four-O'clock Family
Identification Notes
Life Cycle
introduced perennial, reproducing by seed
Stems
upright, 4-sided (edges round), branched above (branching opposite, each then divide again - sometimes multiple), smooth or mostly so
Stems of Wild Four-o'clock
Stems of Wild Four-o'clock
Leaves
opposite, broadly ovate to lanceolate, base heart-shaped, margins entire, smooth, petioled
Leaves of Wild Four-o'clock
Flowers
5 fused petal-like sepals, sepals pink to purple and notched, petals absent; subtended by cup-forming floral bracts, 1-5 per; terminal, drooping clusters
Flowers of Wild Four-o'clock
Flowers of Wild Four-o'clock
Flowers of Wild Four-o'clock
Flowers of Wild Four-o'clock
Flowers of Wild Four-o'clock
Seed Pods
oblong, hairy, brown, 5-ridged