FREE: Oenothera Biennis, Evening Primrose

The listing, Oenothera Biennis, Evening Primrose has ended.

Common Name: common evening primrose
Scientific Name: Oenothera biennis

Package contains approximately 300 seeds.

Description: A biennial plant forming a rosette the first year and then sending up a 1-5 foot stalk with yellow flowers the second year. Flowers are open during the cool part of the day such as evening and stay closed during the heat of the day. Reseeds but requires disturbed ground to proliferate. This plant has several medicinal qualities worth looking into; it also has edible flowers, roots, seed pods, and seeds. It is utilized by wildlife such as deer, rabbits, bear, birds, pollinators. Evening primrose is also the host plant for the pretty pink primrose moth, which you can see if you look closely in my second picture. He resembles a pink flower bud when his wings are folded.

Read more about Evening Primrose at:
http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=OEBI
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oenothera_biennis