The Main Plant entry for Oenotheras (Oenothera)

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Location: central Illinois
Date: 2018-09-01
Chicago Botanical Garden
Location: Daytona Beach, Florida
Date: 2017-11-16
Oenothera lindheimeri a/k/a Gaura and Whirling Butterflies
Location: San Antonio Botanical Garden, San Antonio, Texas
Date: 2022-04-04
Location: Port Orange, Florida
Date: 2018-04-11
Location: Bea’s garden
Date: 2021
Location: My garden
Date: 2021
Night blooming primrose
Location: Indiana zone 5
Location: Port Orange,  Florida
Date: 2018-04-11
Location: Hamilton Square Perennial Garden, Historic City Cemetery, Sacramento CA.
Date: 2015-04-06
Oenothera macrocarpa in Zone 9b.
Location: Daytona Beach, Florida
Date: 2017-11-16
Oenothera lindheimeri (a/k/a Guara and Whirling Butterflies)
Location: my garden zone 7A Cape Cod, MA
Date: 2017-06-25
Location: Old photo from aboretum
It might be Cleome!? I think its a butterfly gaura though
Location: b
Date: 2017-07-23
Location: Brownstown Pennsylvania
Date: 2016-11-07
#Pollinator
Location: Daytona Beach, Florida
Date: 2017-12-07
Location: Port Orange, Florida
Date: 2018-07-01
Location: my garden zone 7A Cape Cod, MA
Date: 2017-06-27
Location: my garden zone 7A Cape Cod, MA
Date: 2017-06-25
Location: Houston
Date: 2010-06-27
Location: central Illinois
Date: 2017-01-19
Location: Brownstown Pennsylvania
Date: 2016-06-22
Location: Daytona Beach, Florida
Date: 2017-11-16
Oenothera lindheimeri a/k/a Gaura and Whirling Butterflies
Location: My garden, Pequea, Pennsylvania 17565
Date: 2017-06-20
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  • Posted by Marilyn (Kentucky - Zone 6a) on May 20, 2013 10:03 PM concerning plant:
    "Oenothera is a genus of about 125 species of herbaceous flowering plants, native to North and South America. It is the type genus of the family Onagraceae. Common names include evening primrose, suncups and sundrops. They are not closely related to the true primroses (Primula).

    The flowers of many species open within less than a minute in the evening, hence the name "evening primrose", and are yellow in most species but white, purple, pink or red in a few. Most native desert species are white. The fragrant tufted evening primrose Oenothera caespitosa, a Southwestern species, blooms white, with flowers turning pink or light magenta as they age.

    One of the most distinctive features of the flower is the stigma with four branches, forming an X shape.

    Oenothera species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Schinia felicitata and Schinia florida, both of which feed exclusively on the genus, the former exclusively on O. deltoides."

    Taken from wikipedia's page at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O...

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