Missouri Evening Primrose
Oenothera macrocarpa
SKU: HC017796
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Overview
Missouri Evening Primrose has huge yellow flowers from late spring through the summer and attractive green foliage . Deep rooted and xeric, this prairie native is a long lived beauty. We grow an especially drought tolerant selection. Drought resistant/drought tolerant plant (xeric).
key features
Botanical Name
Oenothera macrocarpa
Growing Zones
Zone 4, Zone 5, Zone 6, Zone 7, Zone 8
Advantages
Native, Attracts Butterflies, Deer Resistant, Groundcover, Easy To Grow, Long Bloom Time, Fragrant, Mass Plantings, Container Planting, Rock Gardens
Light Requirements
Full Sun
Mature Height
10" tall
Bloom Time
Summer
SKU
HC017796
Description
10" tall x 18-24" wide (seed propagated). This native wildflower is
renowned for the huge 4" yellow flowers that open each afternoon and
close up the following morning. Long blooming throughout the summer
months, it keeps going until it feels it has set enough seed pods to
retire for the season. Long-lived, it forms a huge underground tuber to
keep itself going from year to year. Evening Primrose cascades nicely
over rocks and retaining walls. (Botanists have changed the name for
this species from missouriensis to macrocarpa).
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