Oenothera Species, Whitest Evening-Primrose

Pretty evening flowers; if kept cut back, they will stay short and still bloom (we found this by mowing them, but they still will put on ...Read Moreblooms). If not cut back they can get quite tall.

Transplanted some today to my experimental native plant flowerbed (follow progress in my DG blog).

Of interest to me:

Native Americans used the stem and leaves as a wash for sores; boiled the roots and took the tea for stomaches, diarrhea, rheumatism, influenza, colds, coughs, and pneumonia; and powdered the roots and dusted them on burns. The young stems were eaten and the roots and leaves dried and boiled to make a red or orange dye.