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Mirabilis laevis
Also called Desert Wishbonebush, Wishbone Bush, Wishbone Plant
Desert wishbone-bush is a shrub in the four o'clock family, native to the southwestern United States and northwest Mexico, and it includes the former Mirabilis californica (California wishbone bush). It is a desert and chaparral plant that needs full sun, very well-drained soil, and little water.
Mirabilis laevis, the desert wishbone-bush, is a recently redefined species of flowering plant in the four o'clock family. Distribution is in the Southwestern United States and northwest Mexico.
Mirabilis laevis now includes the common California chaparral plant known as wishbone bush (formerly Mirabilis californica), and several very similar relatives previously classified as separate species and now as varieties.
Winged four o'clock · Scarlet four o'clock · Mauka · Marvel of Peru · Sweet four o'clock · Colorado four o'clock · Heartleaf four o'clock · Four o'clock
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Mirabilis laevis 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.
