Index / Search / Oenothera caespitosa ssp. marginata

§1 Plant

Oenothera caespitosa Nutt. ssp. marginata (Nutt. ex Hook. & Arn.) Munz

vernacular tufted evening primrose — subspecies · Onagraceae


USDA
OECAM4
GBIF
6427731 syn.
Rank
subspecies
tufted evening primrose (Oenothera caespitosa ssp. marginata)
Platephotograph · Tony FratesCC BY-NC-SA source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Forb/herb, Subshrub
Duration
Perennial
Group
Dicot
Family
Onagraceae Juss.
Genus
Oenothera
§2a

Native status, by region

  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b

County-level range

· 113 counties across 10 states/territories
Legend Native · 113 Introduced · 0 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§3Cultivation

No cultivation specs.

USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.


§4Counties, by state

Recorded in 113 counties across 10 states/territories.

Arizona view state ↗ 14 N
California view state ↗ 6 N
Colorado view state ↗ 1 N
Idaho view state ↗ 22 N
Nevada view state ↗ 17 N
New Mexico view state ↗ 19 N
Oregon view state ↗ 6 N
Utah view state ↗ 25 N
Washington view state ↗ 2 N
Wyoming view state ↗ 1 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/OECAM4 ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/6427731 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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