(27-Jul-97; Curtis Rd.)
(27-Jul-97; Curtis Rd.)
Common Evening Primrose
Family: Evening-Primrose
Season: summer-fall
(27-Jul-97; Curtis Rd.)
Common Evening Primrose
A very common flower in dry open places and roadsides. Yellow, two-inch flowers with four petals and prominent X-shaped stamen of the primrose family. Flowers are suppose to open wide in evening. Lance-shaped, hairy, leaves have wavy edges on hairy stems that may be tinged with red.