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Hartweg's Evening Primrose

Oenothera hartwegii

Also called Hartweg's Sundrops, Hartwegs Sundrops

Hartweg's Evening Primrose
Photo: Megan Hansen https://www.flickr.com/photos/nestmaker/, CC BY-SA 2.0
Family
Onagraceae (Evening-primrose family)
Grows as
Perennial
Water
Drought tolerant
Native range
Arizona to Kansas and N. & W. Mexico
Climate
desert or dry shrubland

About

Oenothera hartwegii (syn. Calylophus hartwegii), Hartweg's sundrops, is a species of flowering plant in the evening primrose family Onagraceae. It is native to the desert southwest of the United States, and to northern and western Mexico. A perennial usually 30 to 45 cm (12 to 18 in) tall and 60 cm (24 in) wide, it is used locally as a drought-resistant ground cover.

Other Oenothera plants

Whitest evening primrose · California 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

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Oenothera hartwegii by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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.

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