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Oenothera avita
California evening primrose is a desert perennial herb with white, fading pink flowers that open in the evening, native to the southwestern US and Baja California. It grows best in full sun and well-drained sandy or rocky soil, with very little water.
Oenothera avita, commonly California evening primrose, is a species of plant from the desert Southwest United States and Baja California. It is a flowering plant in the evening primrose family.
It is native to four US states, Arizona, California, Nevada, and Utah, and also to Baja California in Mexico. In Utah it grows in the southwest of the state and likewise in southern Nevada. In Arizona it is found in the west and in Southern California. It only crosses the boarder into the northern parts of Baja California.
Whitest evening primrose · Evening Primrose · Common evening primrose · Tufted Evening Primrose · Woolly Beeblossom · Cleland's evening primrose · Crownleaf evening primrose · Velvetweed · Antioch Dunes evening primrose · Birdcage evening primrose · Oenothera dodgeniana · Beach evening primrose
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Oenothera avita by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
