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§1 Plant

Oenothera parviflora L.

vernacular northern evening primrose — species · Onagraceae


USDA
OEPA5
GBIF
8994150
Rank
species
northern evening primrose (Oenothera parviflora)
Platephotograph · Jean-Marc VallièresCC BY-NC source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

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

Native status, by region

  • CAN Canada Native
  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b

County-level range

· 303 counties across 22 states/territories
Legend Native · 303 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 303 counties across 22 states/territories.

Delaware view state ↗ 1 N
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 N
Illinois view state ↗ 4 N
Iowa view state ↗ 1 N
Kentucky view state ↗ 7 N
Maine view state ↗ 16 N
Massachusetts view state ↗ 13 N
Michigan view state ↗ 43 N
Minnesota view state ↗ 27 N
New Hampshire view state ↗ 7 N
New Jersey view state ↗ 8 N
New York view state ↗ 32 N
Ohio view state ↗ 4 N
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 21 N
Rhode Island view state ↗ 4 N
South Carolina view state ↗ 1 N
South Dakota view state ↗ 1 N
Tennessee view state ↗ 3 N
Vermont view state ↗ 11 N
Virginia view state ↗ 19 N
West Virginia view state ↗ 15 N
Wisconsin view state ↗ 64 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

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

plants.usda.gov/OEPA5 ↗

GBIF Backbone

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

gbif.org/species/8994150 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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