Index / Search / Oenothera suffrutescens

§1 Plant

Oenothera suffrutescens (Ser.) W.L. Wagner & Hoch

vernacular scarlet beeblossom — species · Onagraceae


USDA
OESU3
GBIF
3664650
Rank
species
scarlet beeblossom (Oenothera suffrutescens)
Platephotograph · fm5050 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

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

County-level range

· 360 counties across 16 states/territories
Legend Native · 360 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 360 counties across 16 states/territories.

Arizona view state ↗ 13 N
Indiana view state ↗ 2 N
Iowa view state ↗ 9 N
Kansas view state ↗ 63 N
Louisiana view state ↗ 6 N
Michigan view state ↗ 2 N
Minnesota view state ↗ 17 N
Missouri view state ↗ 5 N
Montana view state ↗ 54 N
Nebraska view state ↗ 43 N
New Mexico view state ↗ 33 N
New York view state ↗ 2 N
North Dakota view state ↗ 43 N
Oklahoma view state ↗ 25 N
South Dakota view state ↗ 40 N
Wisconsin view state ↗ 3 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

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

plants.usda.gov/OESU3 ↗

GBIF Backbone

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

gbif.org/species/3664650 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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