About This Plant
Evening Primrose is an adventageous plant, often growing in recently disturbed areas of meadows, prairies and roadsides that receive moderate sunlight. Its flowers open at dusk and close again in the morning. Its great for planting around borders, and naturalizes easily. Individual plants die after seeding, but come back readily each year.
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Benefits
- Wildlife Benefits
Plant Facts
Evening Primrose is pollinated by night-flying moths and bees in the early mornings before the blooms close. | Evening Primrose is biennial and will not bloom until its second year, in which a hairy-purplish flower stem will shoot up and give way to a top of beautiful yellow blooms. | Songbirds will eat its seeds.
Alternate Names
Field Primrose, Night Willowherb, Wild Four O’Clock
