Flower and leaves. Photo: Don Wood, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Flowering plant. Photo: Don Wood, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Common Name

Common Evening-Primrose, Sweet Scented Evening Primrose

Family

Onagraceae

Notes

Introduced annual or biennial forb to 1m tall.  Leaves in a basal rosette and alternating up the stems, 3-20cm long, 3-15mm wide, flat, toothed, tips pointed.  Basal leaves mostly hairless. Stem leaves hairy, somewhat stem clasping.  Fragrant flowers.  Flowers yellow fading through yellowish pink and orange to red, with 4 petals, solitary at the bases of the upper leaves. 

Description and photo in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales page 534

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Oenothera~stricta