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Internal ID UUID643ff739bab16693343241
Scientific name Oenothera villosa
Authority Thunb.
First published in Prodr. Pl. Cap. : 75 (1794)

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Scientific name Authority First published in
Oenothera erosa Lehm. Linnaea 3(Lit.): 8 (1828)
Oenothera canovertex Hudziok Verh. Bot. Vereins Prov. Brandenburg 105: 104 (1968)
Oenothera baurii Boedijn Z. Indukt. Abstammungs- Vererbungsl. 32: 360 (1924)
Onagra cockerellii (Bartlett ex de Vries) de Vries Gruppenw. Artbild. : 56 (1913)
Onagra erosa Spach Hist. Nat. Vég. 4: 361 (1835)
Onagra lehmanniana Spach Nouv. Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. 4: 353 (1835)
Oenothera velutinifolia Hudziok Verh. Bot. Vereins Prov. Brandenburg 105: 103 (1968)
Oenothera scandinavica Rostański Ann. Bot. Fenn. 44: 394 (2007)
Oenothera strigosa subsp. canovirens (E.S.Steele) Munz N. Amer. Fl. , ser. 2, 5: 136 (1965)
Oenothera depressa Greene Pittonia 2: 216 (1891)
Oenothera canovirens E.S.Steele Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 13: 365 (1911)
Oenothera albinervis R.R.Gates Philos. Trans., Ser. B 226: 339 (1936)
Oenothera strigosa var. albinervis (R.R.Gates) R.R.Gates Rhodora 59: 15 (1957)
Oenothera cockerellii Bartlett ex de Vries Gruppenw. Artbild. 56, fig. 19, 20. 1913
Oenothera strigosa var. cockerellii (Bartlett ex de Vries) R.R.Gates Rhodora 59: 15 (1957)
Onagra depressa Small Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 23: 170 (1896)
Oenothera depressa f. angustifolia Rostański Fragm. Florist. Geobot. 11: 509 (1965)
Oenothera hookeri var. parviflora R.R.Gates Mutat. Factor Evol. : 29 (1915)
Oenothera biennis var. canescens Torr. & A.Gray Fl. N. Amer. (Torr. & A. Gray) 1(3): 492. 1840 [Jun 1840]

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Language Common/alternative name
English evening primrose
English hairy evening-primrose
English hairy evening primrose
English hairy eveningprimrose
Arabic أخدرية برية
German behaarte nachtkerze
Chinese 长毛月见草

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Oenothera villosa subsp. strigosa (Rydb.) W.Dietr. & P.H.Raven Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 63: 383 (1976 publ. 1977)
Oenothera villosa subsp. villosa Unknown

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  • Asia-temperate
    • China
      • Inner Mongolia
      • Manchuria
    • Eastern Asia
      • Japan
    • Russian Far East
      • Khabarovsk
      • Primorye
    • Siberia
      • Altay
      • Irkutsk
      • West Siberia
  • Europe
    • Eastern Europe
      • Central European Russia
      • East European Russia
    • Middle Europe
      • Austria
      • Czechoslovakia
      • Germany
      • Poland
    • Northern Europe
      • Denmark
      • Finland
      • Norway
      • Sweden
    • Southeastern Europe
      • Romania
    • Southwestern Europe
      • France
  • Northern America
    • Eastern Canada
      • New Brunswick
      • Nova Scotia
      • Ontario
      • Prince Edward Island
      • Québec
    • North-central U.S.A.
      • Illinois
      • Iowa
      • Kansas
      • Minnesota
      • Missouri
      • Nebraska
      • North Dakota
      • Oklahoma
      • South Dakota
      • Wisconsin
    • Northeastern U.S.A.
      • Connecticut
      • Indiana
      • Maine
      • Massachusetts
      • Michigan
      • New Hampshire
      • New Jersey
      • New York
      • Ohio
      • Pennsylvania
      • Vermont
      • West Virginia
    • Northwestern U.S.A.
      • Colorado
      • Idaho
      • Montana
      • Oregon
      • Washington
      • Wyoming
    • South-central U.S.A.
      • New Mexico
      • Texas
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      • Arkansas
      • Georgia
      • Kentucky
      • Maryland
      • Mississippi
      • North Carolina
      • Tennessee
      • Virginia
    • Southwestern U.S.A.
      • Arizona
      • California
      • Nevada
      • Utah
    • Subarctic America
      • Northwest Territorie
    • Western Canada
      • Alberta
      • British Columbia
      • Manitoba
      • Saskatchewan
  • Southern America
    • Southern South America
      • Argentina Northeast
      • Argentina Northwest

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Database ID/link to page
World Flora Online wfo-0000389611
Flora of Alabama 2789
Canadensys 6829
USDA Plants OEVI
Tropicos 23200113
INPN 109974
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:317816-2
The Plant List kew-2399261
Open Tree Of Life 799091
Observations.org 149867
NCBI Taxonomy 482603
Nature Serve 2.134267
IPNI 317816-2
iNaturalist 78251
GBIF 3188896
WisFlora 4354
EPPO OEOVI
EOL 582887
Calflora (Californian flora) 9169
USDA GRIN 300407
Wikipedia Oenothera_villosa

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The evolution of multi-gene families and metabolic pathways in the evening primroses (Oenothera: Onagraceae): A comparative transcriptomics approach Kariñho-Betancourt E, Carlson D, Hollister J, Fischer A, Greiner S, Johnson MT PLoS One 24-Jun-2022
PMCID:PMC9231714
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0269307
PMID:35749399

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