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Common eveningprimrose - Oenothera biennis L.
Weed Identification in Nurseries and Landscapes > Common eveningprimrose
Life cycle: Usually an erect biennial or winter annual. Occasionally a summer annual.

Leaves: Alternate, narrow oval-shaped, smooth to slightly wavy leaf margins, with distinctive pink to white midveins. Leaves initially develop from a basal rosette.

Stems: Erect, semiwoody, approaching 5 feet in height. Stem usually branches only at the top and may be visible through the winter.

Flowers and fruit: Flowers are yellow, attached to fused sepals forming a tube and found in terminal spikes. Seed capsules are woody, cylinder-shaped and thickest near the bottom.

Reproduction: Seeds.
 
Common eveningprimrose rosette Common eveningprimrose flower Common eveningprimrose plant
Common eveningprimrose rosette. Common eveningprimrose flowering stem. Common eveningprimrose plant.
 
Cutleaf eveningprimrose leaf
Cutleaf eveningprimrose leaf is coarsely toothed.
Similar weeds: Cutleaf eveningprimrose (O. laciniata Hill) Differs by having a prostrate to moderately erect, branching stem; wavy and coarsely toothed leaves; yellow to reddish flowers in the upper and middle leaf axils; and linear, cylinder-shaped seed capsules.

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Updated: 10/16/07