Oenothera pubescens Willd. ex Spreng. is a plant in the Onagraceae family, order Myrtales, kingdom Plantae. Not known to be toxic.

Photo of Oenothera pubescens Willd. ex Spreng. (Oenothera pubescens Willd. ex Spreng.)
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Oenothera pubescens Willd. ex Spreng.

Oenothera pubescens Willd. ex Spreng.

Oenothera pubescens, the South American evening-primrose, is a native evening primrose family plant used locally in folk medicine.

Family
Genus
Oenothera
Order
Myrtales
Class
Magnoliopsida

About Oenothera pubescens Willd. ex Spreng.

Oenothera pubescens Willd. ex Spreng., commonly called the South American evening-primrose, is a species of plant in the evening primrose family. Its native range includes the Southwestern United States (southeastern California, Arizona, New Mexico, and western Texas), more than 20 states across Mexico, Guatemala, and Western South America (Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru). This plant has local use in folk medicine.

Photo: (c) Ignacio Torres-García, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Ignacio Torres-García · cc-by-nc

Taxonomy

Plantae Tracheophyta Magnoliopsida Myrtales Onagraceae Oenothera

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Sources: GBIF, iNaturalist, Wikipedia, NCBI Taxonomy · Disclaimer

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