Oenothera laciniata |
Oenothera demareei |
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cut-leaf evening-primrose, southern evening primrose |
demaree's beeblossom |
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Habit | Herbs annual, sparsely to moderately strigillose, sometimes also villous, sometimes also becoming glandular puberulent distally. | Herbs usually robust winter-annual, sometimes biennial, densely strigillose throughout; from fleshy taproot. |
Stems | erect to ascending, unbranched to much branched, 5–50 cm. |
usually well-branched distal to base, 50–400 cm. |
Leaves | in a basal rosette and cauline, basal 4–15 × 1–3 cm, cauline 2–10 × 0.5–3.5 cm; blade green, narrowly oblanceolate to narrowly elliptic or narrowly oblong, margins usually dentate or deeply lobed; bracts spreading, flat. |
in a basal rosette and cauline, 3–7 × 0.2–0.8 cm; blade narrowly elliptic to elliptic or lanceolate, margins subentire or shallowly undulate-denticulate. |
Flowers | usually 1 opening per day near sunset; buds erect, with free tips erect, 0.3–3 mm; floral tube 12–35 mm; sepals 5–15 mm; petals yellow, fading orange or reddish tinged, broadly obovate or obcordate, 5–22 mm; filaments 3–14 mm, anthers 4–5 mm, pollen ca. 50% fertile; style 20–50 mm, stigma surrounded by anthers at anthesis. |
4-merous, zygomorphic, opening at sunrise; floral tube 4–13(–15) mm; sepals 13–20 mm; petals white, fading pink, rhombic-obovate, 10–17 mm; filaments 8–17 mm, anthers 3–7 mm, pollen 90–100% fertile; style 18–32 mm, stigma exserted beyond anthers at anthesis. |
Capsules | cylindrical, sometimes slightly enlarged toward apex, 20–50 × 2–4 mm. |
ellipsoid or ovoid, sharply 4-angled, 4.5–7 × 1.5–2.5 mm; sessile. |
Seeds | ellipsoid to subglobose, 0.9–1.8 × 0.4–0.9 mm. |
2–4, yellowish to reddish brown, 1.2–3 × 0.7–1.3 mm. |
2n | = 14. |
= 14. |
Oenothera laciniata |
Oenothera demareei |
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Phenology | Flowering (Feb–)Apr–Sep(–Oct). | Flowering Jul–Oct. |
Habitat | introduced nearly worldwide in temperate and subtropical areas.. | Open meadows in sandy loam. |
Elevation | 0–1000(–1300) m. (0–3300(–4300) ft.) | 70–200 m. (200–700 ft.) |
Distribution |
AL; AR; CA; CT; DC; DE; FL; GA; IA; IL; IN; KS; KY; LA; MA; MD; ME; MI; MN; MO; MS; NC; ND; NE; NJ; NM; NY; OH; OK; PA; RI; SC; SD; TN; TX; VA; VT; WI; WV; WY [Introduced nearly worldwide in temperate and subtropical areas]
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Discussion | Oenothera laciniata is a PTH species and forms aring of 14 chromosomes in meiosis, and is self-compatible and autogamous (W. Dietrich and W. L. Wagner 1988). Oenothera laciniata is known in New Mexico from Doña Ana and Roosevelt counties from non-montane habitats and thus do not appear to represent O. pubescens; however, a few collections from Brewster and Jeff Davis counties, Texas, reported by W. Dietrich and W. L. Wagner (1988) as O. laciniata appear to represent collections of O. pubescens. Dietrich and Wagner found that O. laciniata hybridizes not only with O. grandis, but also with O. drummondii subsp. drummondii, O. humifusa, and O. mexicana. It is naturalized nearly worldwide in temperate and subtropical areas. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Oenothera demareei is known only from Clark, Garland, Hempstead, Howard, Montgomery, Pike, Saline, and Sevier counties. P. H. Raven and D. P. Gregory (1972[1973]) found Oenothera demareei to be self-incompatible. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 10. | FNA vol. 10. |
Parent taxa | Onagraceae > subfam. Onagroideae > tribe Onagreae > Oenothera > sect. Oenothera > subsect. Raimannia | Onagraceae > subfam. Onagroideae > tribe Onagreae > Oenothera > sect. Gaura > subsect. Gaura |
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Synonyms | O. minima, O. repanda, O. sinuata, O. sinuata var. minima, Onagra sinuata, Raimannia laciniata | Gaura demareei |
Name authority | Hill: Veg. Syst. 12(app.): 64, plate 10. (1767) | (P. H. Raven & D. P. Gregory) W. L. Wagner & Hoch: Syst. Bot. Monogr. 83: 212. (2007) |
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