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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
  9. Large-flowered Evening-primrose

species 12 observations

Large-flowered Evening-primrose

Oenothera grandiflora

Status
maybe native
Traits
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

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34 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 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 Beeblossom Aphid, Mourning Dove, Wild Turkey, American Goldfinch 5
  • Flower visitors Pollinators and other flower visitors Common Eastern Bumble Bee, Pure Green Sweat Bee, Eastern Carpenter Bee, Silver-tailed Petalcutter 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
Wildflower

From USDA PLANTS.

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