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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. Anogra
  9. New Mexico Evening Primrose

species 49 observations

New Mexico Evening Primrose

Oenothera neomexicana

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

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33 native animals
supported in the US
  • Caterpillars Moths and butterflies raised on it White-lined Sphinx, Arge Moth, Clouded Crimson Moth, Circumscript Mompha 5
  • 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 Anna's Hummingbird, Beeblossom Aphid, Mourning Dove, Wild Turkey 7
  • Flower visitors Pollinators and other flower visitors Orange-tipped Wood-digger, Silver-tailed Petalcutter, American Bumble Bee, Tripartite Sweat Bee 19

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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