Desert Evening Primrose Flower Desert Evening Primrose Leaves Desert Evening Primrose Plant

Wildflowers of Southern Arizona


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Desert Evening Primrose.
Oenothera primiveris.
Evening Primrose (Onagraceae) family.

The flowers are nocturnal and open in the evening and then close the following morning. The flowers are up to 2 inches (5 cm) across and have 4 broad, notched, heart-shaped petals that turn a pinkish color as they age and wilt. The leaves are solid grayish green to variably spotted with red-brown, oblanceolate in shape, deeply toothed or pinnately lobed except near the leaf tips, and in a flattened basal rosette. The first leaves may not be lobed, while the later leaves are typically very deeply lobed.

Santa Catalina Mountains.
Sabino Canyon Recreation Area
Location: Bear Canyon Road across from restrooms
2/16/16

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