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Oenothera glazioviana, 39030 Perca BZ, Italia no rights reserved · observed growing wild · 2020-07-17

Oenothera glazioviana Micheli

Large Evening Primrose, Large-Flowered Evening-Primrose, Large-flowered evening primrose, Redsepal evening primrose

No habitat climate 69 photographs
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Summary

Oenothera glazioviana is a species of flowering plant in the evening primrose family known by the common names large-flowered evening-primrose and redsepal evening primrose. Oenothera lamarckiana was formerly believed to be a distinct species, but is now regarded as a synonym of Oe. glazioviana. Oenothera glazioviana can be found in scattered locations worldwide as an introduced species and in some locations behaves as an invasive species. It has long been cultivated as an ornamental plant.

Text from Wikipedia, “Oenothera glazioviana”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written. Kept separate from everything derived here.

About the genus · Oenothera

Oenothera is a genus of about 160 species of herbaceous flowering plants native to the Americas. The genus includes the plants known as common evening primrose, narrow-leaved sundrops and white gaura. It is the type genus of the family Onagraceae. More on Wikipedia ›

The opening of Wikipedia, “Oenothera”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written.

Family
Onagraceae
Described by
Micheli
Native to
not verified
Wild records
1505 in range· 552 open

Also known as Oenothera aberrans Lutz; Oenothera albida de Vries; Oenothera biennis f. erythrosepala (Borbás) Jáv., 1924; Oenothera bipartita Lutz; Oenothera blandina de Vries and 45 more.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species, and the archetype table has no figure for its genus or family.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: Native range not verified: no WCVP distribution with native status for this name, so records cannot be told from cultivation and no habitat climate is derived.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeDistribution source did not answer.· introduced: Denmark, Great Britain, Ireland, Norway, Sweden, Austria, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Hungary, Netherlands, Poland, Switzerland, Corse, France, Portugal, Sardegna, Spain, Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Italy, Romania, Sicilia, Yugoslavia, Central European Russia, Azores, Canary Is., Madeira, Angola, Cape Provinces, Lesotho, KwaZulu-Natal, Free State, Swaziland, Northern Provinces, Réunion, Afghanistan, Turkey, China South-Central, Inner Mongolia, Manchuria, China North-Central, China Southeast, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, West Himalaya, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia, British Columbia, Manitoba, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Québec, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Illinois, Wisconsin, Connecticut, Indiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode I., Vermont, West Virginia, California, Alabama, Arkansas, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, Colombia, Ecuador, Brazil Southeast, Brazil South, Argentina Northeast, Chile Central, Chile South, Uruguay, Tristan da Cunha
Kew's description“biennial” · “temperate”· quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedNo verified native range for this name: WCVP has no entry with native status, and a checklist that only reports presence cannot tell a wild record from a garden one. The map shows 552 openly licensed records of 1505 untested against any range; no map marker or climate is derived from them, and no sheet is built from them. 3 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km and stay on the map but off the climate.

Photographs

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Photographs: (c) Dmitriy Bochkov, some rights reserved (CC BY) (3); (c) Kieran Roy Powell, some rights reserved (CC BY) (5).

Photographs: iNaturalist did not answer when this page was built; what is shown came from the sources that did.

Papers naming this species

Works whose title or abstract names Oenothera glazioviana, most cited first, from OpenAlex (CC0). A mention, not a cultivation source: nothing on this page is drawn from them.

Population Dynamics of Oenothera Glazioviana in a Sand-Dune System with Special Reference to the Adaptive Significance of Size-Dependent Reproduction
Naoki Kachi, Tadaki Hirose (1985) · Journal of Ecology
Evolution of flowering strategies inOenothera glazioviana: an integral projection model approach
Mark Rees, Karen E. Rose (2002) · Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
An Outline of the Systematics of Oenothera Subsect. Euoenothera (Onagraceae)
Peter H. Raven, Werner Dietrich, Wilfried Stubbe (1979) · Systematic Botany
Phytostabilization potential of evening primrose (Oenothera glazioviana) for copper-contaminated sites
Pan Guo, Ting Wang, Yanli Liu, Yan Xia (2013) · Environmental Science and Pollution Research
Differences in Copper Absorption and Accumulation between Copper-Exclusion and Copper-Enrichment Plants: A Comparison of Structure and Physiological Responses
Lei Fu, Chen Chen, Bin Wang, Xishi Zhou (2015) · PLoS ONE
Proteomic analysis on roots of Oenothera glazioviana under copper-stress conditions
Chong Wang, Jie Wang, Xiao Wang, Yan Xia (2017) · Scientific Reports
Why So Variable: Can Genetic Variance in Flowering Thresholds Be Maintained by Fluctuating Selection?
Mark Rees, Stephen P. Ellner (2019) · The American Naturalist
Fire effects on germination response of the native species Daucus carota and the invasive alien species Helichrysum foetidum and Oenothera glazioviana
Sheila F. Riveiro, Juan García-Duro, Óscar Cruz, M. Casal (2019) · Global Ecology and Conservation
Optimal time of seedling emergence in a dune‐population of Oenothera glazioviana
Naoki Kachi, Tadaki Hirose (1990) · Ecological Research
Invasive alien species in Espiye (Giresun) Forest Planning Unit
Mustafa Karaköse, Sefa Akbulut, Mahmut Bayramoğlu (2018) · Turkish Journal of Forestry | Türkiye Ormancılık Dergisi
Az Oenothera pycnocarpa Atk. & Bartl. Magyarországon, és kiegészítések néhány idegenhonos faj hazai elterjedéséhez
Csaba Molnár, Norbert Bauer, András István Csathó, Viktor Szigeti (2020) · Botanikai Közlemények
Germination traits and seed‐bank dynamics of a biennial plant, Oenothera glazioviana Micheli
Naoki Kachi (1990) · Ecological Research

Other Oenothera 8 in the reference

Oenothera biennis Common Evening Primrose Oenothera elata Hooker's Evening-Primrose Oenothera fruticosa Narrow-leaf Evening-primrose Oenothera gaura Biennial Evening-Primrose Oenothera lindheimeri Lindheimer's Beeblossom Oenothera macrocarpa Ozark sundrop Oenothera pilosella meadow evening primrose Oenothera speciosa Mexican Evening Primrose

History & registers

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Every upstream is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, or refused. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 149 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.