🐝 🐝 🐝 "Evening Primrose" (Oenothera biennis)

Angel's "Evening Primrose"
Oenothera biennis
Shaw Island, 
photo summer 2014.

Common name: "Evening Primrose," "King's Cure-All"

Life cycle: Hardy biennial.

Growing region: USDA Zone 4 to 9

Height: 3-6-ft.

Bloom time: Late Spring-Summer

Flower description: Clear yellow; showy; fragrant; short-lived; June-August.

Habitat: full sun; well-drained soils; 1 and 2-yr old plants grow together in localized clumps––sea-level to 2,000-ft.
Notes: 
According to the Xerces Society, this plant has special value for native bees.

A plant for the moonlit garden, the flowers unclasp their hooked cover at twilight and open their flowers to the moon, welcoming the night with their sweet fragrance and emissions of phosphorescent light. As the season progresses, the flowers stay open all days as well.

Excellent in any garden.

Great description here:

Seed packets for sale at the
Gatehouse, Reefnet Bay Road, 
Shaw Island, WA.