Evening Primrose:What about its aroma essentials and natural gamma-linolenic acid.

Contents

• Basic Botanical Info:Evening Primrose.
• Evening Primrose Physical Characteristics and Botanical Description.
• Phytochemicals and Constituents of Evening Primrose.
• Evening Primrose Edible Uses and Properties.
• Evening Primrose Oil and Other GLAs.
• Herbalism medicinal uses of Evening Primrose.
• Evening Primrose Suggestions and Administrations.
• How Evening Primrose Can Help.
• Evening Primrose History and Uses:Area of Adaptation,Cultivation and Processing.
• Evening Primrose Research Update.

Evening Primrose Physical Characteristics and Botanical Description.:

The plants are very tall, often 4 to 5 feet or more in height. The stem is erect, stout, soft-hairy, reddish and branching forming a shrub. Leaves are alternate, rough-hairy, lanceolate, about 3 to 6 inches long and lemon-scented. The taproot is elongated, fibrous, yellow on the outside and whitish within. The flower spikes grow on auxiliary branches all along the stalk. They are about 2-1/2 inched in diameter, bright yellow and have four petals, a cross shaped stigma and a refluxed calyx (leaves under petals). The flowers open in the evening and close up during the day and are strongly scented with a delicious sweet perfume which attracts pollinating moths. The fruit is an oblong 1 in. capsule containing many tiny reddish seeds. Evening Primrose is in bloom from June to September. The entire plant is edible, gather edible roots and leaves in spring may be frozen, gather flowers, buds and young seed pods in bloom, gather entire plant in fall and dry for later herb use.

 Biennial growing to 1.2m. It is hardy to zone 4 and is not frost tender. It is in flower from June to September, and the seeds ripen from August to October. The scented flowers are hermaphrodite (have both male and female organs) and are pollinated by Lepidoptera (Moths and Butterflies) and bees. The plant is self-fertile. It is noted for attracting wildlife. We rate it 3 out of 5 for usefulness.

 The plant prefers light (sandy) and medium (loamy) soils, requires well-drained soil and can grow in nutritionally poor soil. The plant prefers acid, neutral and basic (alkaline) soils. It cannot grow in the shade. It requires dry or moist soil and can tolerate drought.
 

 Evening Primrose Species:

 Evening Primrose is a complex of four similar subspecies which occur in the southern half of the Great Plains. These are:

 Fremont's Evening Primrose (subsp. fremontii) : found in chalk badlands and rocky hillsides in northwest and north central Kansas and four counties in Nebraska. Formerly considered a separate species, it has smaller flowers and shorter wings on its seed pods than the other three.

 Hoary Evening Primrose (subsp. incana):  found from southwestern Kansas to the Oklahoma and Texas panhandles. Hoary Evening Primrose is densely covered with short hairs.

 Oklahoma Evening Primrose (subsp. oklahomensis) : found from the Gyp Hills of south central Kansas south into Texas.This subspecies is the only one that is completely hairless.

 Missouri Evening Primrose (subsp. macrocarpa) : widely distributed from central Texas through Oklahoma and eastern Kansas to southeast Nebraska. It is also found in limestone glades in the Ozark Mountain region of Missouri and Arkansas. This has the largest flowers and seed pods of any of the four.

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