Data provided by the participants of the Consortium of California Herbaria

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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 type

Annual herb

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Color

Purple

Plant communities

Chaparral, Foothill Woodland, Valley Grassland, Wetland-Riparian, Yellow Pine Forest

Caterpillars
Butterflies

Butterflies and moths supported

0 confirmed and 7 likely

Confirmed Likely

Pink-spotted Hawkmoth

Agrius cingulata

Subterranean Dart

Feltia subterranea

Corn Earworm Moth

Helicoverpa zea

Carolina Sphinx

Manduca sexta