Oenothera fruticosa ssp. glauca (tetragona) Highlight paired with cannas

paired with cannas

This is a federally listed endangered species

upright specimen for a sunny

a planting can carry six weeks of white bottlebrush spikes across July and August

Oenothera fruticosa ssp. glauca (tetragona) Highlight paired with cannasSundrops make a gentle joke of their family. Oenothera fruticosa ssp. glauca belongs to the evening primroses, a tribe famous for opening at dusk and closing by mid morning, yet the sundrops break ranks and bloom by day, holding cups of clear, satiny yellow wide open through the sunlit hours of late spring and early summer. The genus name comes from the Greek oinos, wine, and thera, to hunt or seek, an old and disputed reference to a European relative