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Bonamia ovalifolia
Also called Bigpod Bonamia
Bigpod lady's nightcap is a scrambling shrub from the morning-glory family, native to a very small area of the Chihuahuan Desert along the Rio Grande in Texas and Coahuila. It is rarely grown and is best suited to dry, sunny, well-drained sites.
Bonamia ovalifolia is a species of flowering plant in the morning glory family known by the common name bigpod lady's nightcap. It is native to North America, where there are only two known occurrences. There is one each in Brewster County, Texas, and Coahuila on the opposite side of the Mexico–United States border.
This plant produces a number of unbranching stems from a woody base. The silvery, blue-green leaves are round and about 1 centimeter in diameter. The purple flowers are each about 2 centimeters wide and bloom in May and June. The fruit is a rounded capsule.
Bonamia alatisemina · Bonamia brevifolia · Bonamia elegans · Bonamia erecta · Bonamia fruticosa · Florida lady's nightcap · Bonamia linearis · Bonamia media · Hawai'i lady's nightcap · Bonamia oblongifolia · Bonamia pannosa · Bonamia pilbarensis
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Bonamia ovalifolia by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
