🐾 common evening-primrose

Oenothera biennis · wildlife atlas entry

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Oenothera biennis ( common evening-primrose , evening star , sundrop , weedy evening primrose, German rampion, hog weed, King's cure-all, or fever-plant.) is a species of Oenothera 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. Evening primrose oil is produced from the plant. Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.

common evening-primrose — reference photo from iNaturalist — (c) Tom Pollard, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Tom Pollard · cc-by

Record card

Scientific name	Oenothera biennis
Rank	species
Community observations	80,116 research-grade records on iNaturalist

Classification

kingdom Plantae › phylum Tracheophyta › class Magnoliopsida › order Myrtales › family Onagraceae

Seen in the wild — community photographs

common evening-primrose photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-18 · Коминтерновский р-н, Воронеж, Воронежская обл., Россия
(c) ver_un_erizo, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

common evening-primrose photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-23 · West Pond Trail, New York, NY, US
(c) aberkov, some rights reserved (CC BY) · cc-by

common evening-primrose photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-23 · West Pond Trail, New York, NY, US
(c) aberkov, some rights reserved (CC BY) · cc-by

common evening-primrose photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-23 · 27th St N, Sartell, MN, US
(c) Dale W, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

common evening-primrose photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-08-05 · Дальнее, Южно-Сахалинск, Сахалинская обл., Россия
(c) Антон Хохлов, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

common evening-primrose photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-22 · Nokomis St, Alexandria, MN, US
(c) Payton Bleess, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

common evening-primrose photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-22 · Troy, AL 36081, USA
(c) Alvin Diamond, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

common evening-primrose photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-22 · Amherst Center, Amherst, MA, USA
(c) Sean Babineau, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

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