Oenothera Species, Evening Primrose, Chilean Evening Primrose, Sweet Sundrops

This came in a packet of mixed seeds from Chilterns. I left it growing in a nursery bed for four months while I went back to Ireland. It ...Read Moresurvived a very dry spring and early summer so I think it could be good for dry situations.
Nice enough plant - the 'straggly' clumps of foliage give it a slightly'other-worldly' appearance.

I have not grown this plant. Chilean evening primrose, South American evening primrose, fragrant evening primrose, sweet sundrop (Oenoth...Read Moreera stricta; synonym: Oenothera stricta ssp. stricta, Oenothera odorata) is native to Chile and Argentina. It has widely naturalized in many locales around the globe including California and Hawaii. Oenothera stricta differs from other Oenothera spp. in that it is only sparsely hairy (only the stem leaves have hairs), the basal leaves are over 80 mm long with the stem leaves not pinnatifid, the flowers are smaller, the floral tube is less than 60 mm long and the seed capsule is cylindrical. The fragrant flowers begin as yellow, turn to peach and then to coral-red. The petals often have a red spot at the base.

Red buds burst open into large, fragrant yellow flowers. This hardy plant is a biennial.

I have this plant in zone 5 and I have seen humming bird moths on it twice in the past two years.This is a weed in Ohio but I love it.Wan...Read Moreda/Ashville Ohio