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Oenothera biennis - Flower - Click to enlarge!

Flower; Botanical Garden Hohenheim, Germany; 7/2010 © Jörn Germer

Oenothera biennis - Flower, side view - Click to enlarge!

Flower, side view; Botanical Garden Hohenheim, Germany; 7/2010 © Jörn Germer

Oenothera biennis - Upper and lower surface of leaf - Click to enlarge!

Upper and lower surface of leaf; Botanical Garden Hohenheim, Germany; 7/2010 © Jörn Germer

Oenothera biennis - Inflorescence - Click to enlarge!

Inflorescence; Botanical Garden Hohenheim, Germany; 7/2010 © Jörn Germer

Dataset

Identifier: 1359
Date of entry: 17.07.2010
Last update: 11.01.2020

Common name

English: Common evening primrose

German: Gemeine Nachtkerze

Mandarin: 月见草 (yue jian cao)

Classification

Kingdom: Plantae (2715)

  Phylum: Tracheophyta (2630)

    Class: Magnoliopsida (2217)

      Order: Myrtales (80)

        Family: Onagraceae (19)(family description)

          Genus: Oenothera (6)

            Epithet: biennis L. (2)

Synonym: Brunyera biennis Bubani

biennis => 'biennial' - two years

Characteristics

Climate: temperate

Habit: herb

Flower colour: yellow

External links

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World Flora Online, GBIF or IPNI

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