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Home  /  Plants  /  Budburst Species  /  Oenothera speciosa
Phenology Observation Sheet for Wildflowers and Herbs

COMMON NAME

Pinkladies

SCIENTIFIC NAME

Oenothera speciosa

ALSO KNOWN AS

pink evening primrose, showy primrose, Mexican primrose

Plant family

Evening Primrose (Onagraceae)

Plant group

Wildflowers and Herbs

Pinkladies are are short herbaceous perennial plants with showy pink flowers originally native only to southern central grasslands of North America but now naturalized to much of southern North America.
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Identification hints

Pinkladies are a species of evening primrose with white-pink colored flowers and winged fruits that split open when mature.
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Some evening primrose flowers open so quickly you can actually see the petals move! The flowers are often visited by insects and moths.
DISTRIBUTION IN TH U.S.
Alabama , Arkansas , Arizona , California , Connecticut , Florida , Georgia , Iowa , Illinois , Indiana , Kansas , Kentucky , Louisiana , Missouri , Mississippi , North Carolina , Nebraska , New Mexico , Ohio , Oklahoma , Pennsylvania , South Carolina , Tennessee , Texas , Utah , Virginia , West Virginia
HABITAT
Pinkladies are most often found in sunny locations and tolerates moist to dry soil in the south-central United States. Native to rocky prairies from Missouri and Kansas south throughTexas and Mexico.
ATTRIBUTES
Leaves
Leaves are larger near the base of the plant. Leaves are alternate, and have nearly no stalk. Some leaves have small lobes near the leaf base. Although leaves are variable in shape from lance-shaped to obovate (wide at the tip, pointed at the base), and leaf margins are typically not smooth, but rather toothed or wavy. Nearly all leaves are fuzzy.
Flowers
The pink evening primrose has four broad petals that start white, and turn a rosy pink with age. The petals form a cup or bowl shape, with yellow reproductive parts in the center. Flowers are nearly 2 in in diameter. Flowers are very fragrant.
Fruits
Pinkladies produce dry, oval-shaped capsule fruits with wings hold many extremely tiny seeds.
Bloom Time
Pinkladies bloom between February and July. The flowers open at specific times of the day depending on where in the species distribution you find the plant, but typically is open at night or in the pre-dawn hours.

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