Can someone help me identify an Illinois wildflower?
This plant/flower "sprung up" for the first time in my Central
Illinois garden this Spring. It just started blooming this week (June 5th or so). I did some Web searching on it and thought it might be related to the Evening Primrose family or the Prairie Sundrop, but not sure cause the specs don't match exactly. There are a lot of little carpenter-type bees flying around the blooms. The buds, just before blooming, are reddish (don't match the other Primrose descriptions I've been reading), but the flowers are bright yellow. Here is a pic of the plant on my Web site: http://home.insightbb.com/~minda27/ Thanks to anyone for any info, Beth |
Can someone help me identify an Illinois wildflower?
It is indeed an "Evening Primrose". Its a form of the extremely polymorphic
and widespread Oenothera fruticosa, commonly called "Sundrops". Elizabeth wrote in message om... This plant/flower "sprung up" for the first time in my Central Illinois garden this Spring. It just started blooming this week (June 5th or so). I did some Web searching on it and thought it might be related to the Evening Primrose family or the Prairie Sundrop, but not sure cause the specs don't match exactly. There are a lot of little carpenter-type bees flying around the blooms. The buds, just before blooming, are reddish (don't match the other Primrose descriptions I've been reading), but the flowers are bright yellow. Here is a pic of the plant on my Web site: http://home.insightbb.com/~minda27/ Thanks to anyone for any info, Beth |
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