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Unknown Euphorbia maybe?

4 years ago

Growing in full sun.

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weedwoman

4 years ago

I think you're on the right track. Check out Mirabilis nyctaginea, Wild Four O'clock. Your pictures are of the plant in fruit; the 'corolla' is actually a bract surrounding the flowers, which are gone now; you can see the some of the fruit developing in your pictures (scroll down to the bottom of the Missouri plants site for a good pic.) It sounds like there are some similar species but the leaves are the best match to this one, in the books I've got.

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Jay 6a Chicago
Original Author
4 years ago
last modified: 4 years ago

Is there a Mirabilis thing going on here?
macranthos
4 years ago
How big were these flowers? Garden setting or wild?

I have no.... idea...
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Jay 6a Chicago
Original Author
4 years ago
Wild area with some non natives, at least Verbascum thapsus. I'd say the flower was about the size of a nickel.
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Jay 6a Chicago
Original Author
4 years ago
Are you from Illinois? Makes perfect sense! Wow, and it's just a few minutes away. Thanks again weedwoman!
weedwoman
4 years ago
Glad I can help. Not from Illinois, although I grew up in Ohio. I did spend 4 months in Chicago once. I didn't have much time off but I managed to visit the Morton Arboretum and the Chicago Botanic Garden. Really nice. The wind off the lake in January, on the other hand...

Most of the time I look at posts like this and go 'that looks like something I've seen' and then it's flipping through the wildflower books and image searching on the family name and checking the manuals to see what similar species might exist. Not very scientific, but it helps keep my hand in and it's an excuse to look at plant pictures.
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