{"product_id":"oenothera-biennis-evening-pri","title":"Oenothera biennis (Evening Pri)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCommon Evening Primrose (Oenothera biennis)\u003c\/strong\u003e is the lemon-yellow biennial of North American roadsides and meadows, a robust three-to-five-foot plant that grows a first-year basal rosette of strap-shaped leaves, then explodes into a second-year flowering stalk that blooms from June through September. The flowers open at dusk, four bright yellow petals each, lightly fragrant, and stay open through the night before fading the following morning.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe headline ecology is the \u003cstrong\u003emoth pollination\u003c\/strong\u003e. Sphinx moths and other hawkmoths fly the dusk shift, hovering at the flowers and drawing nectar from a long floral tube. Native bees and bumblebees pick up the morning shift before the petals close. The seed pods ripen in fall and become a goldfinch favorite, also feeding juncos, sparrows, and mourning doves through winter.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe roots and seeds are \u003cstrong\u003eedible\u003c\/strong\u003e. Eastern Indigenous peoples (Iroquois, Cherokee, Ojibwa, Potawatomi, others) have boiled the first-year roots as a parsnip-like vegetable for generations, and the seeds are pressed for evening primrose oil, used historically and still sold in herb shops.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNative to Eastern and Central North America. Naturalized widely across the continent including the PNW, where it is common on roadsides and disturbed open ground.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDeer-resistant.\u003c\/strong\u003e Tough fibrous foliage with mild peppery taste is generally avoided by deer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA reseeding biennial: plant once, allow some seed to set, and you have a self-perpetuating patch. Beautiful in informal meadow settings with goldenrod, asters, native grasses, and Solidago.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dragonfly Farm \u0026 Nursery","offers":[{"title":"Dragonfly Farm Homegrown!!","offer_id":44000234143832,"sku":"00103380","price":7.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/dragonflyfarmlanglois.com\/products\/oenothera-biennis-evening-pri","provider":"Dragonfly Farm \u0026 Nursery","version":"1.0","type":"link"}