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Oenothera pilosella
Also called Prairie sundrops, Meadow Sundrops, Finely Pilose Evening Primrose, Pilose Evening Primrose, Prairie Evening Primrose
Meadow evening primrose is a native North American perennial with yellow flowers in late spring and early summer, grown in gardens for its bloom. It thrives in sunny, open sites with well-drained soil.
Oenothera pilosella is a species of flowering plant in the evening primrose family known by the common names midwestern evening primrose and meadow evening primrose. It is native to the United States and eastern Canada.
This species is grown as an ornamental garden plant. It produces flowers with yellow petals in late spring and early summer.
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 pilosella 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.
