#oenothera

[geopsych]

Things from the garden, 7th of June.

[japanese-plants]

Rose Evening Primrose by Momo Shimizu (1944-)

[awakeningthevioletswithin]

Evening Socialible

Watercolor On Birch Board

2022, 11"x 14"

Evening Primrose, Oenothera

[uxbridge]

May flowers in the garden

[awkwardbotany]

Another Year of Pollination: Viscin Threads

While we’re on the subject of pollen-gluing mechanisms, there is another material apart from pollenkitt that a limited number of flowering plant families use to link their pollen grains together. It functions, much like pollenkitt, by aiding in the attachment of pollen to visiting animals. However, unlike pollenkitt, it isn’t sticky, oily, or viscous, and is instead more like a series of threads.…

[crudlynaturephotos]

[faguscarolinensis]

Oenothera fruticosa / Southern Sundrops at the Sarah P. Duke Gardens at Duke University in Durham, NC

[biology-geology-beaches-india]

TSRNOSS. Page 191.

[kuhliloaches]

[drhoz]

#2127 - Oenothera stricta - Common Evening Primrose

AKA the Fragrant Evening Primrose.

Native to Argentina, Chile, and the Unfortunate Islands, but introduced to many other parts of the world as an ornamental. It, of course, promptly escaped.

Nannygoat Hill, Cooma, NSW

[awakeningthevioletswithin]

Evening Socialible

Watercolor On Birch Board

2022, 11"x 14"

Evening Primrose, Oenothera

[i-identify-plants-in-pictures]

Oenothera lindheimeri 'Whirling Butterflies' / Whirling Butterflies White Gaura

[fatchance]

Tufted evening primrose (Oenothera cespitosa) at Tohono Chul.

[crudlynaturephotos]

[faguscarolinensis]

Oenothera serrulata 'Prairie Lode' / 'Prairie Lode' Halfshrub Sundrop at the JC Raulston Arboretum at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, NC

[biology-geology-beaches-india]

The Science Research Notebooks of S. Sunkavally. Page 289.