August 25th. The
Common Evening Primrose (Oenothera
biennis) is the last of the Oenothera
sp. to bloom each year. They usually appear as individual or clusters of tall,
slender stems covered with blooms along roads. This plant, however, caught my
attention because it was a bush with many branches.
Several flowers at the top of
the bush.
The bush. It was about 6 feet tall. Its stem
was approximately 1.5 inches at the base and it had many branches.
The flowers are approximately 1 inch across
with 4 petals that are notched at their tips and 8 stamens.
Its leaves (photographed on a different
plant) are lanceolate and arranged alternately along the stem.
This bush was growing next to a
barbed wire fence where it escaped the autumn roadside mowing. I’m looking
forward to enjoying it for many years to come - although it may be removed when the bridge on GA-11 over the Apalachee River is replaced in a couple of years.
Identification
resources:
- Native
and Naturalized Plants of the Carolinas and Georgia. Oenothera biennis (Common Evening Primrose)
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