Pretty-by-night/Definition

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A definition or brief description of Pretty-by-night.

Ornamental perennial plant (Mirabilis jalapa, family Nyctaginaceae), also called beauty-of-the-night, and four-o'clock because its flowers, sometimes streaked and mottled, open in late afternoon.