When it blooms
In bloom: July to September
How to grow it
- Light
- Full sun, Part shade
- Soil
- Moist
- Size
- 50–90 cm
- Family
- Onagraceae
- Native to
- Quebec
What it feeds
Common Evening-Primrose is a host plant local wildlife depends on. These are the beings it brings back.
Little Brown BatEndangeredBatDisease wiped out most of them. A single bat eats thousands of insects a night, the ones night-blooming natives raise.
Chimney SwiftThreatenedBirdIt catches every meal on the wing. Native plants sustain the insects it lives on.
Common NighthawkThreatenedBirdIts dusk call is going quiet. It hunts the night-flying moths that evening-primrose and milkweed raise.
Eastern Whip-poor-willThreatenedBirdNamed for its haunting call, now seldom heard. It depends on the large moths native plants raise.
Photos: Photo by Marvin Moriarty/USFWS, public domain · Photo by Andrew C, CC BY 2.0 · Photo by Greg Schechter, CC BY 2.0 · Photo by Dominic Sherony, CC BY-SA 2.0
Plant it with
Other native plants the Little Brown Bat also depends on. Grow a few together and you give it food across the whole season.
Grow Common Evening-Primrose where you live
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