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Taxon:  Oenothera biennis L.



Summary
Genus:
Oenothera
Section:
Oenothera
Subsection:
Oenothera
Family:
Onagraceae
Subfamily:
Onagroideae
Tribe:
Onagreae
Nomen number:
25521
Place of publication:
Sp. pl. 1:346. 1753
Verified:
03/03/1998 ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
0 (0  active, 0  available) in National Plant Germplasm System. 
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Homotypic Synonym(s)
Onagra biennis (L.) Scop.

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Oenothera acutifolia Rostanski, nom. inval.
Oenothera biennis L. var. sulfurea Kleb., nom. nud.
Oenothera chicagoensis Renner ex R. E. Cleland & Blakeslee, nom. nud.
Oenothera muricata L.
Oenothera purpurata Kleb.
Oenothera rubricaulis Kleb.
Oenothera suaveolens Pers.
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Reference(s)
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    • based on Alden, B. & S. Ryman. 2005-: SKUD (Swedish Utility and Cultivated Plants Database)
    • http://www.skud.info
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  4. Dietrich, W. et al. 1997. Systematics of Oenothera section Oenothera subsection Oenothera (Onagraceae). Syst. Bot. Monogr. 50:93. http://herbarium.lsa.umich.edu/SBMweb/index.html
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  6. Encke, F. et al. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage. 1984
  7. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource). Note: http://ecocrop.fao.org/ecocrop/srv/en/cropListDetails?code=&relation=beginsWith&name=Oenothera+biennis&quantity=1
  8. Hanelt, P., ed. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6. 2001 http://mansfeld.ipk-gatersleben.de/pls/htmldb_pgrc/f?p=185:3:2422827336895397#
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  10. Iwatsuki, K. et al. Flora of Japan. 1993-
  11. Kartesz, J. T. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. 1994
  12. Leung, A. Y. & S. Foster. Encyclopedia of common natural ingredients used in food, drugs, and cosmetics, ed. 2. 1996
  13. Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. Hortus third. 1976
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  17. Mun-Chan, B. et al. 1986. A checklist of the Korean cultivated plants. Kulturpflanze 34:112.
  18. Raven, P. et al. 1979. An outline of the systematics of Oenothera subsect. Euoenothera (Onagraceae). Syst. Bot. 4:244. www.aspt.net/systematic-botany
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  20. Skvortsov, A. K. 1994. Genus Oenothera (Onagraceae) in the former Soviet Union: taxonomy and distribution. Byull. Moskovsk. Obshch. Isp. Prir., Otd. Biol. 99:98.
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Common names
English
common evening-primrose –
evening-primrose –
German-rampion –
Japanese Rōmaji
me-matsuyoigusa –
Swedish
nattljus –
pricknattljus –
Transcribed Chinese
yue jian cao –
Transliterated Russian
oslennik dvuchletnyj –
Distribution
Native
Northern America
  • EASTERN CANADA: Canada [New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec]
  • NORTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.: United States [Illinois, Iowa, Kansas (e.), Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota (e.), Oklahoma (e.), South Dakota, Wisconsin]
  • NORTHEASTERN U.S.A.: United States [Connecticut, Indiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, West Virginia]
  • SOUTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.: United States [Texas]
  • SOUTHEASTERN U.S.A.: United States [Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee (http://tenn.bio.utk.edu/vascular/database/vascular-database.asp?CategoryID=Dicots&FamilyID=Onagraceae&GenusID=Oenothera&SpeciesID=biennis), Virginia]
  • WESTERN CANADA: Canada [Alberta, Manitoba, Saskatchewan]
Cultivated (also cult.)
Naturalized (widely natzd. in temperate & subtropic regions)
Other (exact native range obscure)
Economic Uses
Environmental
Medicines
folklore (fide Ency CNatIn; CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2) –


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