Oenothera stricta |
Oenothera cordata |
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Chilean evening primrose |
heartleaf evening primrose |
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Habit | Herbs annual or biennial, densely to sparsely strigillose, glandular puberulent or sometimes also sparsely villous distally. | |
Stems | unbranched or branched primarily distally, 25–70 cm. |
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Leaves | in a basal rosette and cauline, basal 6–12 × 0.7–2 cm, cauline 2–10 ×0.5–3 cm; subsessile; blade narrowly elliptic to oblanceolate, gradually narrowly lanceolate to lanceolate, elliptic, or ovate distally, margins lobed to remotely dentate or subentire; bracts shorter than capsule they subtend, 0.5–1.7 cm. |
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Inflorescences | open, lax, usually unbranched, mature buds usually overtopping spike apex. |
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Flowers | 1–few per spike opening per day near sunset; buds erect, with free tips erect, 1–3 mm; floral tube nearly straight, 20–40 mm; sepals 15–25 mm; petals yellow, broadly elliptic to rhombic-ovate, 20–30 mm; filaments 17–22 mm, anthers 4–7 mm, pollen 85–100% fertile; style 50–65 mm, stigma usually exserted beyond anthers at anthesis. |
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Capsules | narrowly lanceoloid, 15–33 × 2–3 mm. |
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Seeds | dark brown, ellipsoid, 1–1.4 ×0.4–0.6 mm. |
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2n | = 14. |
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Oenothera stricta |
Oenothera cordata |
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Phenology | Flowering Apr–Jul. | |
Habitat | Sandy, open places in oak woodlands. | |
Elevation | 30–200 m. [100–700 ft.] | |
Distribution |
South America [Introduced, California] |
TX |
Discussion | Subspecies 2 (1 in the flora). Oenothera stricta is a PTH species and forms a ring of 14 chromosomes in meiosis, and is self-compatible and autogamous (W. Dietrich 1977). Subspecies stricta is naturalized in many areas around the world and may be so in California. Subspecies altissima W. Dietrich occurs only in Argentina. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Oenothera cordata is self-incompatible. It occurs in a narrow range in eastern Texas (Austin, Bastrop, Colorado, Fayette, Guadalupe, Goliad, Matagorda, San Patricio, Victoria, Waller, and Wilson). It apparently occasionally hybridizes with O. heterophylla subsp. heterophylla where their ranges come together. Oenothera bifrons D. Don 1838 (not Lindley 1831) pertains here. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 10. | FNA vol. 10. |
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Name authority | Ledebour ex Link: Enum. Hort. Berol. Alt. 1: 377. (1821) — (as striata) | J. W. Loudon: Ladies’ Flower-gard. Ornam. Perenn. 1: 167. (1843) |
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