Allionia incarnata

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Eudicots
Cladus: Core eudicots
Ordo: Caryophyllales

Familia: Nyctaginaceae
Tribus: Nyctagineae
Genus: Allionia
Species: Allionia incarnata
Subspecies: A. i. incarnata
Name

Allionia incarnata L.
Synonyms

Wedelia incarnata (L.) Kuntze
Wedeliella incarnata (L.) Cockerell

References

Systema Naturae, Editio Decima 2: 890. 1759.

Allionia incarnata is a flowering plant in the four o'clock family (Nyctaginaceae) native to the Caribbean, the southern United States, and south through Central America and most of western South America.[1] It is a perennial (sometimes annual) herbaceous plant with dark pink flowers.[2] Allionia incarnata is known as pink three-flower, pink windmills, trailing allionia, trailing four-o'clock, and trailing windmills.[2]

Three varieties are accepted:[1]

Allionia incarnata var. incarnata L.
Allionia incarnata var. nudata (Standl.) Munz
Allionia incarnata var. villosa (Standl.) B.L.Turner

References

"Allionia incarnata L." Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 31 December 2020.
Spellenberg, R. W. (2003). "Allionia incarnata". In Flora of North America Editorial Committee (ed.). Flora of North America North of Mexico (FNA). Vol. 4. New York and Oxford. Retrieved 31 December 2020 – via eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO & Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA.