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Seaside Petunia
Petunia parviflora
  
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About Seaside Petunia (Petunia parviflora) 0 Nurseries Carry This Plant Calibrachoa parviflora is a species of flowering plant in the nightshade family known by the common name seaside petunia. It is native to much of southeastern South America, Mexico, and the southwestern United States, and it is present as an introduced species in other sections of the Americas, such as the southeastern United States, as well as in Australia, where it is an occasional weed in New South Wales. This herb produces slender, branching stems which creep along the ground and root at nodes. The upright branches are leafy, with fleshy, glandular, oblong or widely lance-shaped leaves. The herbage may be sticky in texture. Flowers occur in the leaf axils along the stems. Each is under a centimeter wide, its funnel- or bell-shaped corolla five-lobed and purple in color, with a paler tubular throat. The fruit is a capsule just a few millimeters wide.
Plant Description
Plant Type
Plant Type
Annual herb

Flower Color
Flower Color
Purple

Wildlife Supported
 


 
Butterflies & moths hosted ( 8 likely * ) SHOW ALL
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White-lined Sphinx Hyles lineataHyles lineata
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Carolina Sphinx Manduca sextaManduca sexta
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Subterranean Dart Feltia subterraneaFeltia subterranea
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Corn Earworm Moth Helicoverpa zeaHelicoverpa zea
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Virginian Tiger Moth Spilosoma virginicaSpilosoma virginica
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Yellowstriped Armyworm Moth Spodoptera ornithogalliSpodoptera ornithogalli
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Ni Moth Trichoplusia niTrichoplusia ni

Landscaping Information
Natural Setting
Climate
Climate
Annual Precipitation: 3.3" - 31.6", Summer Precipitation: 0.14" - 2.67", Coldest Month: 40.1" - 59.9", Hottest Month: 62.1" - 88.3", Humidity: 0.83" - 40.46", Elevation: 2" - 5434"

Alternative Names
Common Names: Wild Petunia


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Sources include: Wikipedia. All text shown in the "About" section of these pages is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Plant observation data provided by the participants of the California Consortia of Herbaria, Sunset information provided by Jepson Flora Project. Propogation from seed information provided by the Santa Barbara Botanical Garden from "Seed Propagation of Native California Plants" by Dara E. Emery. Sources of plant photos include CalPhotos, Wikimedia Commons, and independent plant photographers who have agreed to share their images with Calscape. Other general sources of information include Calflora, CNPS Manual of Vegetation Online, Jepson Flora Project, Las Pilitas, Theodore Payne, Tree of Life, The Xerces Society, and information provided by CNPS volunteer editors, with special thanks to Don Rideout. Climate data used in creation of plant range maps is from PRISM Climate Group, Oregon State University, using 30 year (1981-2010) annual "normals" at an 800 meter spatial resolution.

Links:   Jepson eFlora Taxon Page  CalPhotos  Wikipedia  Calflora


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