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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Myrtles, Evening Primroses, and Allies
  6. Evening Primrose Family
  7. Evening-primroses
  8. Oenothera Sect. Kneiffia
  9. Prairie Evening-primrose

species 28 observations

Prairie Evening-primrose

Oenothera sessilis

Status
maybe native
Traits
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

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36 native animals
supported in the US
  • Caterpillars Moths and butterflies raised on it White-lined Sphinx, Red-streaked Mompha Moth, Grape Leaffolder Moth, Pearly Wood-nymph 8
  • Hosted animals Gall makers, leaf miners and other animals living on or in it Spotted Cucumber Beetle 1
  • Plant eaters Animals that feed on it Beeblossom Aphid, Mourning Dove, Wild Turkey, American Goldfinch 6
  • Flower visitors Pollinators and other flower visitors Bicolored Striped Sweat Bee, Common Eastern Bumble Bee, Pure Green Sweat Bee, Eastern Carpenter Bee 21

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Key traits

Layer
Herbaceous plants
Plant type
Perennial Wildflower

From USDA PLANTS.

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