Oenothera pubescens

Pubescent evening primrose

Family: Onagraceae · Type: annual · Native

Pubescent evening primrose is a California native annual found in the central Mojave Desert near Newberry Springs in San Bernardino County at approximately 600 meters elevation. Flowering from May to July, this plant produces bright yellow flowers that fade to orange, with petals 5 to 35 millimeters long. Growing with decumbent to erect stems 0.5 to 8 decimeters tall, it has a strigose appearance with both minute and long spreading hairs. Its cauline leaves are narrow-oblanceolate to lanceolate, 2 to 8 centimeters long, often pinnately lobed or nearly entire. The fruit is a cylindric capsule 20 to 45 millimeters long, containing small spheric seeds with a pitted surface.

Habitat: Open places

Bloom period: May-Jul

Elevation: +- 600 m.

Bioregions: c DMoj (Newberry Springs, San Bernardino Co.)

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.