Pinkladies
Oenothera speciosa Nutt.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 51 cm
- wide
- 30 cm
Onagraceae
Also called Showy Evening Primrose, Pink Evening Primrose, Mexican Evening Primrose, Pink Buttercups, Buttercups
Formerly Hartmannia berlandieri, Hartmannia speciosa, Oenothera berlandieri, Oenothera hirsuta, and 9 more
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.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Perennial or rhizomatous geophyteKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- C. & EC. U.S.A. to N. & C. MexicoKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 51 cmRead from RHS and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: RHS 0.1–0.5 m; Wikipedia 50–50 cm
- Spread
- 10 cm to 51 cmRead from RHS, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- White, pinkRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -28.9 °C (USDA zone 5a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Japanese
- ヒルザキツキミソウ
- French
- Onagre rose
- German
- Rosa Nachtkerze, Rosa Teppich-Nachtkerze
- Spanish
- onagra
- Finnish
- komeahelokki
- Russian
- Энотера красивая
- Chinese
- 美麗月見草, 美丽月见草
- Chinese (China)
- 美丽月见草
- Swedish
- silvernattljus
- Hebrew
- נר-לילה נאה
- Korean
- 분홍낮달맞이꽃
- Dutch
- Fraaie teunisbloem
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
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- RHS, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Oenothera speciosa (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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.