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Oenothera biennis
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Oenothera biennis, the common evening-primrose, is a species of flowering plant in the family Onagraceae, native to eastern and central North America, from Newfoundland west to Alberta, southeast to Florida, and southwest to Texas, and widely naturalized elsewhere in temperate and subtropical regions. Evening primrose oil is produced from the plant.
- Family
- Onagraceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Oenothera biennis
- Slug
- oenothera-biennis
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Onagraceae
- Genus
- Oenothera
- Species
- biennis
- Wikidata QID
- Q157353
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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