Showy Evening Primrose

(Oenothera speciosa)

Characteristics

Seedling	Leaves	Flowers	Fruit

Growing habits: Ascending to erect branched perennial

Root anatomy: Roots fibrous, adventitious from lateral roots and taproot

Leaf anatomy: Leaves alternately arranged, elliptic to oblanceolate, margins nearly entire to irregularly lobed or toothed

Reproduction: Flowers solitary in upper axils, buds nodding, white or pink, self-incompatible, petals inversely heart-shaped; capsule fruit

^{References: Weeds of the South by Charles T. Bryson and Michael S. DeFelice}