Meadow evening primrose
Oenothera pilosella Raf.
- light
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- water
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- tall
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- wide
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Onagraceae
Also called Prairie sundrops, Meadow Evening-primrose
Formerly Kneiffia pilosella, Kneiffia pratensis, Kneiffia sumstinei, Oenothera pratensis
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- PerennialKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- EC. & E. U.S.A.Kew's checklist, not yet checked
- Flowers
- YellowRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: light, height, spread, water, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (5)
- root
- OENPIL
- French
- onagre piloselle
- Russian
- Ослинник волосистый, Ослинник ястребинковый
- Chinese (China)
- 柔毛月见草
- Finnish
- loistohelokki
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, Public domain
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.