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

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Oenothera Sect. Kneiffia

Kneiffia

Includes
6 native 3 present
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Children

  • Oenothera fruticosa 4 native
  • Meadow Evening Primrose native
  • Small Sundrops native
  • Spach's Evening Primrose
  • Prairie Evening-primrose

Range

United States

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

Top native oenothera sect. kneiffia All

Native to the US, ranked by caterpillars, then bees and other hosts, food, flowers and shelter.

  • Narrow-leaved Sundrops Oenothera fruticosa caterpillars 15 bees 3 hosts 1 food 7 flowers 73
  • Yellow Sundrops Oenothera tetragona caterpillars 15 bees 2 hosts 1 food 7 flowers 42
  • Small Sundrops Oenothera perennis caterpillars 15 bees 1 hosts 1 food 7 flowers 41
  • Meadow Evening Primrose Oenothera pilosella caterpillars 14 bees 2 hosts 1 food 7 flowers 41
  • Riverbank Sundrops Oenothera riparia caterpillars 9 hosts 1 food 5 flowers 29
  • Coastal Sundrops Oenothera unguiculata

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