Oenothera biennis L.
ONAGRACEAE
- Evening Primrose family (Angiosperms - Flowering plants)
Taxon Page:
Name: Oenothera biennis L.
Nomencl. ref.: Sp. Pl.: 346 (1753)
Rank: species
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Common names
U.S.
name:
Common evening primrose
English name: common evening-primrose English name: evening-primrose
Italian name: Enagra comune
Grown habit: Forb/herb
Duration: Biennial
Synonyms:
= Oenothera biennis L. ssp. caeciarum Munz
= Oenothera biennis L. ssp. centralis Munz
= Oenothera biennis L. var. pycnocarpa (Atk. & Bartlett) Wiegand
= Oenothera muricata L.
= Oenothera pycnocarpa Atk. & Bartlett
Subspecies / Varieties:
1) Oenothera biennis L. ssp. austromontana Munz
2) Oenothera biennis L. ssp. caeciarum Munz
3) Oenothera biennis L. ssp. centralis Munz
4) Oenothera biennis L. var. austromontana (Munz) Cronquist
5) Oenothera biennis L. var. canescens Torr. & A. Gray
6) Oenothera biennis L. var. hirsutissima A. Gray ex S. Watson
7) Oenothera biennis L. var. hookeri (Torr. & A. Gray) B. Boivin
8) Oenothera biennis L. var. nutans (Atk. & Bartlett) Wiegand
9) Oenothera biennis L. var. oakesiana A. Gray
10) Oenothera biennis L. var. pycnocarpa (Atk. & Bartlett) Wiegand
11) Oenothera biennis L. var. strigosa (Rydb.) Piper
TAXONOMY
Kingdom: Plantae
Subkingdom: Tracheobionta
Superdivision: Spermatophyta
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Subclass: Rosidae
Order: Myrtales
Family: Onagraceae
Genus: Oenothera
Species:
Page counter: 3177 ( AVG: 221.15 / 219.876 )
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Flowers at Crater rd Kula, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.
Oenothera biennis
Flowering habit at Crater Rd Kula, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.
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Steve Hurst - USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database - Not copyrighted image
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Jacob Sturm, Johann Georg Sturm - Deutschlands Flora in Abbildungen (1796). - This image is in the public domain because its copyright has expired.
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions. Vol. 2: 595.
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Photo by Leo Michels. Usage: Public Domain
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Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Venezia, Isola del Lido, località Alberoni, dune nei pressi dello stabilimento balneare., TS, FVG, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License
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Hugo de Vries - Gruppenweise Artbildung unter spezieller Berücksichtung der Gattung Oenothera (1913) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License.
Oenothera biennis
Hugo de Vries - Gruppenweise Artbildung unter spezieller Berücksichtung der Gattung Oenothera (1913) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License.
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Picture modified from Richard Wettstein - Handbuch der Systematischen Botanik (1924) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled 'GNU Free Documentation License'.
Oenothera biennis
Hugo de Vries - Gruppenweise Artbildung unter spezieller Berücksichtung der Gattung Oenothera (1913) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License.
Oenothera biennis
Hugo de Vries - Gruppenweise Artbildung unter spezieller Berücksichtung der Gattung Oenothera (1913) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License.
Oenothera biennis
Hugo de Vries - Gruppenweise Artbildung unter spezieller Berücksichtung der Gattung Oenothera (1913) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License.
Oenothera biennis
Hugo de Vries - Gruppenweise Artbildung unter spezieller Berücksichtung der Gattung Oenothera (1913) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License.
Oenothera biennis
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Monrupino, località Rupingrande, centro abitato., TS, FVG, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License
Oenothera biennis
Flowering habit at Crater Rd Kula, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.
Oenothera biennis
Flowers at Crater rd Kula, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.
Oenothera biennis
Flowers and leaves at Crater Rd Kula, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.
Oenothera biennis
Flowering habit at Crater Rd Kula, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.
Oenothera biennis
Walter Hood Fitch - Illustrations of the British Flora (1924) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.
A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".
Oenothera biennis
Photo by Leo Michels. Usage: Public Domain
Oenothera biennis
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Monrupino, località Rupingrande, centro abitato., TS, FVG, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License
Oenothera biennis
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Venezia, Isola del Lido, località Alberoni, dune nei pressi dello stabilimento balneare., TS, FVG, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License
Oenothera biennis
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Venezia, Isola del Lido, località Alberoni, dune nei pressi dello stabilimento balneare., TS, FVG, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License
Oenothera biennis
Hugo de Vries - Gruppenweise Artbildung unter spezieller Berücksichtung der Gattung Oenothera (1913) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License.
Oenothera biennis
Hugo de Vries - Gruppenweise Artbildung unter spezieller Berücksichtung der Gattung Oenothera (1913) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License.
Oenothera biennis
Hugo de Vries - Gruppenweise Artbildung unter spezieller Berücksichtung der Gattung Oenothera (1913) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License.
Oenothera biennis
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Venezia, isola del Lido, spiaggia di San Nicolò., VE, Veneto, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License
Oenothera biennis
Hugo de Vries - Gruppenweise Artbildung unter spezieller Berücksichtung der Gattung Oenothera (1913) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License.
Oenothera biennis
Hugo de Vries - Gruppenweise Artbildung unter spezieller Berücksichtung der Gattung Oenothera (1913) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License.
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Distribution in USA and Canada (*)
USA (AL, AR, CA, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, IA, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, MS, MT, NC, ND, NE, NH, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, VA, VT, WA, WI, WV), CAN (AB, BC, MB, NB, NF, NS, ON, PE, QC, SK), FRA (SPM)
Map for Oenothera biennis L.
(*) USDA, NRCS. 2009. The PLANTS Database (http://plants.usda.gov, 28 August 2009). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA
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More species:
1) Oenothera brachycarpa A. Gray [380]
2) Oenothera brevipes A. Gray ssp. pallidula (Munz) P.H. Raven [172]
3) Oenothera caespitosa Nutt. [254]
4) Oenothera caespitosa Nutt. ssp. crinita (Rydb.) Munz [308]
5) Oenothera caespitosa Nutt. ssp. marginata (Nutt. ex Hook. & Arn.) Munz [285]
6) Oenothera californica (S. Watson) S. Watson [347]
7) Oenothera californica (S. Watson) S. Watson ssp. eurekensis (Munz & Roos) W. Klein [263]
8) Oenothera coronopifolia Torr. & A. Gray [398]
9) Oenothera deltoides Torr. & Frém. ssp. howellii (Munz) W. Klein [270]
10) Oenothera falfurriae W. Dietr. & W.L. Wagner [278]
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