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§1 Plant

Oenothera hexandra (Ortega) W.L. Wagner & Hoch ssp. gracilis (Wooton & Standl.) W.L. Wagner & Hoch

vernacular harlequinbush — subspecies · Onagraceae

USDA
OEHEG2
GBIF
9029872 syn.
Rank
subspecies
harlequinbush (Oenothera hexandra ssp. gracilis)
Platephotograph · C. MalloryCC BY-NC 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

· 23 counties across 3 states/territories
Legend Native · 23 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 23 counties across 3 states/territories.

Arizona view state ↗ 12 N ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 10 N ▾
Texas view state ↗ 1 N ▾

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

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

plants.usda.gov/OEHEG2 ↗

GBIF Backbone

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

gbif.org/species/9029872 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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