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Common name: Common Evening Primrose

Size, form, texture: up to 7 ft tall, usually shorter, upright stems.

Hardiness, origin, native ecology: biennial, hardy, can survive in a variety of locations, prefers sandy soils, in open location with average moisture.

Bud, foliage, flower and fruit characteristics: Moths pollinate at night in drier parts of BC, sizeable rosette of leaves, sends up flowering shoot, can be weedy, basal leaves different from smaller leaves up stem, sticky, 4 sepals fused at tips which is the calyx, soft yellow flowers, ovary at base of flower, lanceolate, willow like leaves.

Cultural and maintenance requirements and appropriate uses in the landscape:  Oil commonly prescribed in natural medicine for mood disorders in women. Considered weedy but worth cultivating due to beauty.