Common Evening-primrose - Oenothera biennis
An erect short to tall somewhat hairy plant. Flowers primrose yellow 40 to 50 mm in erect leafy spikes, stigmas equalling anthers.
The County Recorder has asked for a specimen of this plant to be retained for verification
Waste ground and open habitats, road verges.
June to September.
Annual or biennial. Often as a casual or garden escape.
Scattered throughout England, scarcer elsewhere in Britain.
Occasional in Leicestershire and Rutland. In the 1979 Flora survey of Leicestershire it was found in 13 of the 617 tetrads.
Graham Calow
Higham on the Hill
25 July 2015
Steve Mathers
GUC (Lboro south to Bridge 32)
29 July 2016
steven lewis
welby
27 June 2015
Craig Mabbett
Soar Field's Broughton Astley
10 October 2015
Graham Calow
Near Higham on the Hill
18 August 2015
Graham Calow
Higham on the Hill
18 August 2015
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Species profile
- Common names
- Lesser Evening Primrose, Common Evening-primrose
- Species group:
- Wildflowers
- Kingdom:
- Plantae
- Order:
- Myrtales
- Family:
- Onagraceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 18
- First record:
- 31/08/2007 (Calow, Graham)
- Last record:
- 15/09/2021 (Nicholls, David)
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Graham Calow
Higham on the Hill
25 July 2015
Lostash
Loughborough GCR Station
01 June 2014
Graham Calow
Near Higham on the Hill
18 August 2015
Graham Calow
Near Higham on the Hill
18 August 2015
Graham Calow
Near Higham on the Hill
18 August 2015
