Index / Search / Oenothera pilosella
§1 Plant
Oenothera pilosella Raf.
vernacular meadow evening primrose — species · Onagraceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Onagraceae Juss.
- Genus
- Oenothera
§2a
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Native
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 254 counties across 22 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Low
- Shade
- Medium
- Moisture use
- Medium
- Fire
- High
- Salinity
- None
- Anaerobic
- Medium
- CaCO₃
- Low
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -23 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 90 min.
- Precipitation
- 35–50 in/yr
- pH range
- 5.8–7.2
- Root depth
- 8 in min.
- Fertility need
- Medium
- Soil texture
- medium
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Stoloniferous
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Lifespan
- Moderate
- Mature height
- 2 ft
- Foliage texture
- Fine
- Foliage colour
- Gray-Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Moderate
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- Purple
- Fruit colour
- Brown
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- Low
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Late Spring
- Seed abundance
- Medium
- Seed begins
- Spring
- Seed ends
- Summer
- Spread rate
- Slow
- Stratify
- No
- Seeds / lb
- 700,000
- Propagation
- seed, bare root
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- No Known Source
- Nursery stock
- No
- Browse palatability
- Low
- Graze palatability
- Low
- Palatable, human
- No
- Protein potential
- Low
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 254 counties across 22 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 29 N ▾
- Arkansas 05001
- Ashley 05003
- Bradley 05011
- Clark 05019
- Clay 05021
- Cleveland 05025
- Conway 05029
- Craighead 05031
- Crittenden 05035
- Dallas 05039
- Drew 05043
- Faulkner 05045
- Greene 05055
- Hot Spring 05059
- Jackson 05067
- Lafayette 05073
- Lawrence 05075
- Little River 05081
- Lonoke 05085
- Monroe 05095
- Nevada 05099
- Ouachita 05103
- Poinsett 05111
- Pope 05115
- Prairie 05117
- Pulaski 05119
- St. Francis 05123
- Union 05139
- White 05145
Illinois view state ↗ 61 N ▾
- Adams 17001
- Alexander 17003
- Bond 17005
- Champaign 17019
- Clark 17023
- Clay 17025
- Clinton 17027
- Coles 17029
- Cook 17031
- Crawford 17033
- Cumberland 17035
- Douglas 17041
- DuPage 17043
- Effingham 17049
- Fayette 17051
- Ford 17053
- Franklin 17055
- Greene 17061
- Grundy 17063
- Hamilton 17065
- Hancock 17067
- Henry 17073
- Iroquois 17075
- Jackson 17077
- Jasper 17079
- Jefferson 17081
- Johnson 17087
- Kane 17089
- Kankakee 17091
- Kendall 17093
- Lake 17097
- LaSalle 17099
- Lawrence 17101
- Lee 17103
- Livingston 17105
- Macon 17115
- Macoupin 17117
- Marion 17121
- Mason 17125
- Massac 17127
- McDonough 17109
- Montgomery 17135
- Peoria 17143
- Perry 17145
- Pope 17151
- Pulaski 17153
- Randolph 17157
- Richland 17159
- Saline 17165
- Scott 17171
- Shelby 17173
- St. Clair 17163
- Stark 17175
- Union 17181
- Washington 17189
- Wayne 17191
- White 17193
- Will 17197
- Williamson 17199
- Winnebago 17201
- Woodford 17203
Indiana view state ↗ 31 N ▾
- Bartholomew 18005
- Brown 18013
- Clark 18019
- Clay 18021
- Crawford 18025
- Dubois 18037
- Floyd 18043
- Fountain 18045
- Gibson 18051
- Jackson 18071
- Jasper 18073
- Jefferson 18077
- Jennings 18079
- Lake 18089
- Lawrence 18093
- Madison 18095
- Martin 18101
- Monroe 18105
- Montgomery 18107
- Newton 18111
- Owen 18119
- Parke 18121
- Posey 18129
- Scott 18143
- Shelby 18145
- Spencer 18147
- Sullivan 18153
- Tippecanoe 18157
- Tipton 18159
- Vigo 18167
- White 18181
Iowa view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 13 N ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 16 N ▾
Maine view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 12 N ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 14 N ▾
New Hampshire view state ↗ 3 N ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 1 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 8 N ▾
Ohio view state ↗ 24 N ▾
- Adams 39001
- Ashland 39005
- Ashtabula 39007
- Athens 39009
- Clark 39023
- Gallia 39053
- Hamilton 39061
- Holmes 39075
- Jackson 39079
- Jefferson 39081
- Lawrence 39087
- Licking 39089
- Lorain 39093
- Meigs 39105
- Perry 39127
- Pike 39131
- Preble 39135
- Richland 39139
- Ross 39141
- Scioto 39145
- Summit 39153
- Trumbull 39155
- Union 39159
- Vinton 39163
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 14 N ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Texas view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 7 N ▾
West Virginia view state ↗ 1 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/OEPI2 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/3188916 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
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