Pink Evening Primrose

With a beautiful yet delicate pink appearance, the Pink Evening Primrose is a commonly admired plant. Native to North America, this is a quick-growing herbaceous, biennial flower. When it reaches maturity, it will be between three and five feet tall and two to three feet wide.

The Stunning Appearance Of Pink Evening Primrose

This uniquely refreshing plant blooms from July to October. It has four to five bright Pink flower petals that sit above a basal rosette. Its bowl-shaped flowers reach a diameter of around two inches. It has four sepals and eight stamens, complete with a prominent style with a cross-like shaped stigma. This plant will bloom with multi-flowered terminal panicles.

Its leafy branched stems are covered with purple-tinged hair follicles. Its leaves are an olive-green color and elliptical-shaped. They typically reach a width of one to three inches and a length greater than six inches. This plant's leaves are stalkless and wavy-toothed.

Attract Wildlife With Pink Evening Primrose

Unlike many other flowers, it doesn't open its plant's bloom until the late afternoon to early evening hours. This causes it to attract nighttime pollinators like bats and moths. It will stay open for its morning pollinators, like bees, until noon. Then, it will close its bloom during the hotter hours of the day.

The Many Uses Of Pink Evening Primrose

This herbaceous plant goes by a variety of names, some of which include Fever Plant, King's Cure-All, Evening Star, Sundrop, German Rampion, Hog Weed, and Oenothera Biennis. It's part of the Onagraceae botanical family. A very sought-after attribute of this plant is the lemon-scented aroma that its cross-shaped flowers put off into the air. Many chose to use this intriguing plant as part of their garden border due to its aromatic quality.

Pink Evening Primrose has been known to grow in fields, thickets, glades, disturbed grounds, and even roadsides. It naturalizes easily to whatever landscaping environment you want to introduce it to. Around mid-August, this plant will produce fruit capsules. These narrow seed pods reach a length of about one and a half inches. When they are ripe, they'll release over 100 seeds per capsule. This biennial flower has no serious problems with diseases or insects.