Mirabilis multiflora

Family: Nyctaginaceae
Common Name: Colorado four o'clock
Symbol: MIMU
Description: Perennial herb to subshrub, 60-100 cm in diameter; stems diffusely branched; glabrous or densely pubescent. Leaves opposite, ovate to round, 5-10 cm long by 4-8 cm wide, with a rounded to heart-shaped, often asymmetric base. Flowers large and purplish, each cluster of 6 flowers surrounded by a cup-shaped, 5-lobed involucre; petals fused into a funnel-shape, 2-6 cm long. Found in gravelly and sandy soils, low desert to the chaparral, and into the ponderosa forests from 500-8,500 ft.