General Culture:
Easily grown in average to moderately fertile, dry to medium moisture, well-drained soils in full sun. Prefers good summer heat and dryish soils. Tolerates poor soils and light shade. If plant foliage depreciates in summer after flowering, stems may be cut back to the basal rosette. Slowly spreading rosettes.
Noteworthy Characteristics:
Oenothera fruticosa, commonly called sundrops or southern sundrops, is an erect, day-flowering member of the evening primrose family. It is native to eastern North America. It typically grows 15-30” tall and produces terminal clusters of bright yellow four-petaled flowers in late spring on stems clad with lanceolate green leaves (1-3” long). Rosette leaves (to 1-4” long) are oblanceolate. Flowers are followed by distinctive club-shaped seed capsules. ‘Fyrverkeri’ (also sold as ‘Fireworks’) is a more compact plant that grows to 18” tall. It features purple-brown flushed foliage, red stems, red flower buds and bright yellow flowers in May-June. Flowers bloom during the day, hence the appropriate common name of sundrops. Each flower is short-lived, but flowers bloom in succession over a fairly long period of two months.
Problems:
No serious insect or disease problems.
Uses:
Borders, wild gardens, rock gardens, native plant areas or cottage gardens.
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