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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. Pachylophus
  9. Arkansas Valley Evening-Primose

species 72 observations

Arkansas Valley Evening-Primose

Oenothera harringtonii

Status
native
Bees
1 specialist raised on its pollen
Traits
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Supports All

40 native animals
supported in the US
  • Caterpillars Moths and butterflies raised on it White-lined Sphinx, Bedstraw Hawkmoth, Double-banded Carpet Moth, Red-streaked Mompha Moth 10
  • Specialist bees Bees whose young are raised on the pollen of it Texas Nocturnal Sweat Bee 1
  • 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, Orange-tipped Wood-digger, Acanthoscelidius acephalus, Silver-tailed Petalcutter 22

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
Annual Wildflower

From USDA PLANTS.

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