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Common Evening Primrose |
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Evening Primrose |
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Common evening-primrose |
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Night Willow-herb |
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Hoary Evening Primrose |
| Plant Habit: | Herb/Forb |
| Life cycle: | Biennial |
| Sun Requirements: | Full Sun Full Sun to Partial Shade |
| Water Preferences: | Mesic Dry Mesic |
| Minimum cold hardiness: | Zone 3 -40 °C (-40 °F) to -37.2 °C (-35) |
| Maximum recommended zone: | Zone 8b |
| Plant Height: | 2 to 7 feet |
| Plant Spread: | 1 to 3 feet |
| Fruit: | Showy |
| Fruiting Time: | Fall |
| Flowers: | Showy Fragrant Nocturnal Other: open in the evening till mid-morning |
| Flower Color: | Yellow |
| Bloom Size: | Under 1" 1"-2" |
| Flower Time: | Summer |
| Underground structures: | Taproot |
| Uses: | Medicinal Herb Vegetable Salad greens Will Naturalize |
| Edible Parts: | Stem Leaves Roots Seeds or Nuts |
| Eating Methods: | Raw Cooked |
| Wildlife Attractant: | Bees Butterflies Other Beneficial Insects: Sphinx moths |
| Resistances: | Deer Resistant Rabbit Resistant Drought tolerant |
| Propagation: Seeds: | Provide light Self fertile Stratify seeds: 30 days Suitable for wintersowing Sow in situ Start indoors Other info: can only handle transplanting when seedlings are small |
| Pollinators: | Moths and Butterflies Bees |
| Miscellaneous: | Tolerates poor soil |
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| Posted by Sharon (Calvert City, KY - Zone 7a) on Nov 16, 2011 1:43 AM This plant is a North American native. Its yellow blooms exude a perfume that attracts the nocturnal sphinx moth, which pollinates it. It has been used by Native Americans for various ailments for years, but more recently it has become the focus of medical research. The plant may have an anti-clotting factor that would make it useful in the prevention of heart attacks. It has also been found that the oil of the evening primrose might help those who suffer from atopic eczema, asthma and from migraine. None of these drugs has been approved in the US, however. [ Reply to this comment | |
| Posted by jmorth (central Illinois) on Oct 30, 2011 4:29 PM Flowers open at night, emitting a creosote aroma that night flying sphinx moths find very attractive. Yellow bloom has 8 yellow stamens. [ Reply to this comment | |
| Posted by Mindy03 (Delta KY) on May 4, 2012 1:24 PM Honey bees get pollen from this plant. [ Reply to this comment | |
| Posted by ILPARW (southeast Pennsylvania - Zone 6b) on Feb 24, 2018 8:26 PM It is a very common forb in meadows and prairie and seashore from southeast Canada into Florida to Arizona up into southern British Columbia. I've only seen it as a wild plant. [ Reply to this comment | |
| greene | On November 19, 2014 | Obtained plant These are biennial but after the recent frigid weather a few of the first year rosettes have started to send up their 'second year' growth. |
| lizvero | On June 12, 2019 | Potted up planted on the ground triangle 1, |
| Thread Title | Last Reply | Replies |
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| Wildflower ID by stilldew | Aug 16, 2019 5:00 PM | 3 |
| Blooming in April.... by wcgypsy | May 19, 2019 8:01 PM | 70 |
| Wildflower ID please Yellow flower by delirow | Sep 2, 2018 4:20 PM | 2 |
| Flowering weed? by Pleinhauser | Aug 20, 2018 2:30 PM | 10 |
| Use wild evening primrose as beetle magnet. by AudreyDee | Aug 16, 2018 6:53 AM | 0 |
| ID Help please by mnmat | Aug 17, 2018 5:29 PM | 4 |
| Identify plant by kenmacaulay | Aug 15, 2018 10:10 AM | 20 |
| what is this plant - central ohio by thelmacat | Aug 12, 2018 10:17 AM | 3 |
| what is this flower by thelmacat | Aug 5, 2018 7:23 AM | 5 |
| Blooming in July by Strever | Jul 31, 2018 6:32 PM | 39 |
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