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Oenothera

Oenothera
Family: Onagraceae
Oenothera image
Tony Frates
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Vascular plants of NE US and adjacent Canada
Fls 4-merous, solitary in the axils or forming a terminal raceme or spike, commonly vespertine and ephemeral, but matutinal or diurnal and lasting several days in spp. 13-17; hypanthium usually slenderly tubular and prolonged well beyond the ovary (at least 3 mm in all but one of our spp.), deciduous from the fr; sep at first connate, often with terminal or subterminal appendages, splitting at anthesis and reflexed; pet in most of our spp. yellow, in two white or pink, often large and showy; stamens 8, equal or alternately unequal; anthers versatile (sometimes obscurely so in small fls); sporogenous tissue continuous in each microsporangium; ovary 4-locular; ovules numerous; style ±elongate; stigma with 4 slender lobes stigmatic all around; capsule prismatic to terete or winged, linear to ovoid or obovoid, in some spp. deeply sulcate and strongly angled; herbs with alternate, mostly narrow lvs. (Kneiffia, Hartmannia, Lavauxia, Megapterium, Meriolix, Peniophyllum, Raimannia) 80, New World.

Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.

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Species within checklist: Badlands National Park Plants
Oenothera albicaulis
Media resource of Oenothera albicaulis
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Oenothera biennis
Media resource of Oenothera biennis
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Oenothera cespitosa
Media resource of Oenothera cespitosa
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Oenothera coronopifolia
Media resource of Oenothera coronopifolia
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Oenothera curtiflora
Media resource of Oenothera curtiflora
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Oenothera laciniata
Media resource of Oenothera laciniata
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Oenothera nuttallii
Media resource of Oenothera nuttallii
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Oenothera serrulata
Media resource of Oenothera serrulata
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Oenothera suffrutescens
Media resource of Oenothera suffrutescens
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