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Oenothera is a genus of about 145 [3] species of herbaceous flowering plants native to the Americas. [4] It is the type genus of the family Onagraceae . Common names include evening primrose , suncups , and sundrops .
Oenothera biennis, the common evening-primrose, [3] is a species of flowering plant in the family Onagraceae, native to eastern and central North America, from Newfoundland west to Alberta, southeast to Florida, and southwest to Texas, and widely naturalized elsewhere in temperate and subtropical regions. [4]
Oenothera speciosa is a species in the evening primrose family known by several common names, including pinkladies, pink evening primrose, showy evening primrose, Mexican primrose, and buttercups (not to be confused with true buttercups in the genus Ranunculus).
Oenothera neomexicana (Small) Munz – New Mexico evening primrose (Arizona, New Mexico) [6] Oenothera nuttallii Sweet – Nuttall's evening primrose (central North America) [7] Oenothera pallida Lindl. – pale evening primrose, white buttercup (western North America) [8] O. pallida ssp. gypsophila (Eastw.) Munz & W.M.Klein – whitepole ...
Oenothera fruticosa, the narrowleaf evening primrose [1] or narrow-leaved sundrops, is a species of flowering plant in the evening primrose family. It is native to much of eastern North America, [ 2 ] where it is found in a variety of open habitats, including dry woodlands, rock outcrops and moist savannas.
Oenothera perennis is a species of flowering plant in the family Onagraceae and is native to the eastern United States and Canada. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Its common names include little evening primrose , [ 3 ] small sundrops , [ 4 ] and small evening primrose .
Most bees cannot collect it, and only bees with specialized morphologies can effectively pollinate the flowers; nearly all bee taxa that visit the flowers are oligoleges specialized on the family Onagraceae. The family was named after the genus Onagra (now known as Oenothera) in 1836 by John Lindley in the second edition of A Natural System of ...
Oenothera gaura, formerly known as Gaura biennis, the biennial gaura or biennial beeblossom, is a North American flowering plant that can reach 6 ft (1.8 m) in height at maturity. Its upper half is made up of flowering stems, which are covered with soft, white hairs.