Mirabilis laevis, the desert wishbone-bush,[1] is a recently redefined species of flowering plant in the
four o'clock family. Distribution is in the
Southwestern United States and northwest Mexico.
Distribution
Mirabilis laevis now includes the common
Californiachaparral plant known as wishbone bush (formerly Mirabilis californica), and several very similar relatives previously classified as separate species and now as varieties.[2][3]
Mirabilis laevis var. retrorsa is found in the White and Inyo Mountains,
Nevada, and
Oregon, east to
Utah, and south to
Arizona and northwest Mexico.[5]
Mirabilis laevis var. villosa has a similar distribution to Mirabilis laevis var. retrorsa.[6]
Gallery
Mirabilis laevis var. villosa
References
^USDA, NRCS (n.d.).
"Mirabilis laevis". The PLANTS Database (plants.usda.gov). Greensboro, North Carolina: National Plant Data Team. Retrieved 12 July 2015.
Spellenberg, R. & S. R. Rodriguez Tijerina. (2001). Geographic variation and taxonomy of North American species of Mirabilis, section Oxybaphoides (Nyctaginaceae). Sida 19:3 539–570.