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§1 Plant

Oenothera grandis (Britton) Smyth

vernacular showy evening primrose — species · Onagraceae


USDA
OEGR2
GBIF
7776230
Rank
species
showy evening primrose (Oenothera grandis)
Platephotograph · Layla source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

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

Native status, by region

  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b

County-level range

· 150 counties across 11 states/territories
Legend Native · 150 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 150 counties across 11 states/territories.

Arkansas view state ↗ 5 N
Colorado view state ↗ 1 N
Florida view state ↗ 1 N
Kansas view state ↗ 34 N
Louisiana view state ↗ 12 N
Mississippi view state ↗ 1 N
Missouri view state ↗ 6 N
New York view state ↗ 1 N
North Carolina view state ↗ 2 N
Oklahoma view state ↗ 24 N
Texas view state ↗ 63 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

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

plants.usda.gov/OEGR2 ↗

GBIF Backbone

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

gbif.org/species/7776230 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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