Biennial Evening Primrose

Biennial Evening Primrose, Common Evening Primrose

Oenothera biennis L.

Onagraceae (Evening Primrose Family)

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Common Evening Primrose, Biennial Evening Primrose:

a biennial weed with first year growth a rosette of long, lanceolate leaves, often with orangish or reddish tints to them
flowers are yellow, somewhat lemon-scented, in tall flowering spikes in second year--open in evening; close by morning
flower petal tips are blunt or with a notch in them at the tip
produces many seeds in 1" long, cigar-like fruit; in the Evening Primrose (Onagraceae) Family
prefers full sun, moist to wet soils
sometimes included in wildflower seed mixtures