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Long-tubed Evening-primrose - Oenothera flava
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Native Species
Global Rank :
G5
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C-value :
6
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General Description
Acaulescent perennial from a simple caudex. Herbage glabrate or sparsely strigose. Leaves linear-oblanceolate, pinnately lobed below 5–25 cm long. Flowers light yellow, drying pinkish; hypanthium 3–10 cm long; sepals 6–12 mm long, free or remaining united at tips; petals 1–3 cm long; stigma lobes ca. 3 mm long. Capsule erect, ovoid, 4-ribbed, 1–3 cm long, glabrate to strigose (
Lesica et al. 2012. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants. BRIT Press. Fort Worth, TX ).
Range Comments
WA to SK south to CA, NM, TX and Mexico (Lesica et al. 2012. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants. BRIT Press. Fort Worth, TX ).
Observations in Montana Natural Heritage Program Database
Number of Observations: 12
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Ecology
POLLINATORS The following animal species have been reported as pollinators of this plant species or its genus where their geographic ranges overlap:
Bombus pensylvanicus and
Bombus impatiens (Colla and Dumesh 2010).
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References
Literature Cited AboveLegend: View Online Publication Colla, S.R. and S. Dumesh. 2010. The bumble bees of southern Ontario: notes on natural history and distribution. Journal of the Entomological Society of Ontario 141:39-68. Lesica, P., M.T. Lavin, and P.F. Stickney. 2012. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants. Fort Worth, TX: BRIT Press. viii + 771 p.
Additional ReferencesLegend: View Online Publication Do you know of a citation we're missing? Culver, D.R. 1994. Floristic analysis of the Centennial Region, Montana. M.Sc. Thesis. Montana State University, Bozeman. 199 pp. Lesica, P., M.T. Lavin, and P.F. Stickney. 2022. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants, Second Edition. Fort Worth, TX: BRIT Press. viii + 779 p.
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