Yellow Evening Primrose Seeds: Grow Vibrant Oenothera Flowers in Your Garden
Evening Primrose is a prolific bloomer throughout the summer, filling fields and gardens with canary yellow blooms. Evening Primrose shows off its attractive blooms in the cool evening hours, attracting nocturnal insects such as moths. Evening Primrose is edible.
The leaves are cooked and eaten as greens, the roots are eaten as potatoes, and the flowers make a lovely edible garnish. Evening Primrose is one of the few native wildflowers in North America. It is happiest in dry open areas similar to the open meadows where it thrives in the wild. Evening Primrose has a wide array of medicinal uses.
Botanical Name: Oenothera lamarckiana
Life Cycle: Annual
Light Requirement: Full Sun
Planting Season: Spring, Fall
Plant Type: Tall Sturdy Stalks with Brilliant Yellow Blossoms
Features: Heirloom, Attracts Pollinators, Fast Growing, Fragrant, Drought Tolerant, Container Garden
Color: Yellow
Blooms: Summer, Late Summer, Early Fall, Fall
Days to Maturity: 85 Days
Plant Height: 36-48 inches
Plant Spacing: 4-6 inches
Planting Depth: 1/16 inch
Sowing Method: Start Indoors, Direct Sow
Cold Stratification: No
Hardiness Zones: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9