🐝 🐝 🐝 "EVENING PRIMROSE" (Oenothera biennis)

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

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

Life cycle: Hardy, upright biennial.

Growing region: USDA Zone 4 to 9

Tolerates: Deer, drought.

Height: 3-6 ft.

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

Habitat: full sun; well-drained soils; 1 and 2-year-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 every day as well.

Excellent in any garden.

Primrose oil is now commercially cultivated in 15 countries. 

All parts of this plant, including the roots, were once used as food by the Native Americans. 

Great description here:

EVENING PRIMROSE
(Oenothera biennis)
Seed packets for sale at the
Gatehouse, Reefnet Bay Road, 
Shaw Island, WA.