Participant Info

Species

Mirabilis linearis [Oxybaphus linearis] [Mirabilis hirsuta]

Family

Nyctaginaceae

CommonName

narrowleaf four-o’clock

Presence

YES

Status

native

EarliestDate

1922

LatestDate

2020

Ecosystem

basin, shrubland, foothill, montane, ruderal

Geobotanical

SSawatch, Garitas, SSanjuans, Culebras, NCristos, UBasin

Counties

Alamosa, Conejos, Costilla, Hinsdale, Mineral, Rio Grande, Saguache

Passes

Mosca, Poncha

WildlifePreserves

Baca, Coller, Great Sand Dunes

Other Localities

La Botica

PhotoRecords

YES Rich Haswell: Rio Grande Co, one mile N of Del Norte 21 Aug 2020

Comments

In the Watershed, narrowleaf four-o'clock is a common flower of well-drained foothill rocky slopes, occasionally found road side, on both sides of the Valley. The early Basin occurrences (1931, 1936) were associated with greasewood. Mirabilis linearis, with all its variations, is found in the Rocky Mountain states, from the Canadian border down to the Mexican. It is one of a few flowers that follow the Rio Grande from the Watershed in Colorado all the way down to the Gulf of Mexico.

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