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  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Myrtles, Evening Primroses, and Allies
  6. Evening Primrose Family
  7. Evening-primroses
  8. Oenothera Sect. Kleinia
  9. White-stem Evening Primrose

species 3,680 observations

White-stem Evening Primrose

Oenothera albicaulis

Status
native
Bees
7 specialists raised on its pollen
Traits
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Supports All

78 native animals
supported in the US
  • Caterpillars Moths and butterflies raised on it White-lined Sphinx, Bedstraw Hawkmoth, Primrose Moth, Double-banded Carpet Moth 16
  • Specialist bees Bees whose young are raised on the pollen of it Texas Nocturnal Sweat Bee, Epimelissodes comptus, Anthophora affabilis, Western Evening Primrose Sweat Bee 7
  • 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 Anna's Hummingbird, Beeblossom Aphid, Lesser Prairie-Chicken, Mourning Dove 9
  • Flower visitors Pollinators and other flower visitors Clouded Sulphur, Checkered White, Acmaeodera bowditchi, Bicolored Striped Sweat Bee 45

Range

United States

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

Key traits

Layer
Herbaceous plants
Light
Full sun
Plant type
Annual Wildflower

From USDA PLANTS and the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center.

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