BREC's Wildflower Park Guide

Ever wonder what the name of that beautiful flower on the trail is? Use this guide to help you decipher the blues from the purples and yellows from the golds. Spring and early Fall are the best seasons to go wildflowers exploring in BREC's Conservation Areas.

Common Evening-Primrose

Oenothera biennis (common evening primrose, evening star, or sun drop) is a species of Oenothera native to eastern and central North America, from Newfoundland west to Alberta, southeast to Florida, and southwest to Texas, and widely naturalized elsewhere in temperate and subtropical regions.Evening primrose oil is produced from the plant.

Gaura lindheimeri

Oenothera lindheimeri, formerly Gaura lindheimeri, and commonly known as Lindheimer's Beeblossom, White Gaura, Pink Gaura, Lindheimer's Clockweed, and Indian Feather, is a species of Oenothera.

Pinkladies

Oenothera speciosa is a species of evening primrose known by several common names, including pinkladies, pink evening primrose, showy evening primrose, Mexican primrose, and amapola. It is a herbaceous perennial wildflower native to 28 of the lower 48 U.S. states (Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, California, the Carolinas, Connecticut, Florida, ...more ↓

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