Showy Evening Primrose Oenothera Speciosa is a herbaceous perennial plant native to the south-central United States. Showy Evening Primrose seeds can be started indoors or directly outdoors in spring or late summer and fall. Also commonly called Mexican Primrose and Pink Evening Primrose, Oenothera Speciosa produces white flowers that turn rosy pink from the outer edge of the petals inwards as they age, and the showy flowers open up during the daytime. The flowers are 2-4 inches across, and each flower has 4 broad petals, 8 white stamens with white or yellow anthers, and a long white stigma that is 4-cleft at its tip, resembling a white cross. Showy Evening Primrose blooms all summer long, and its saucer-shaped blossoms attract bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds. 

Showy Evening Primrose is useful in a wide variety of semi-wild garden settings: in rock gardens, wildflower meadows, naturalistic borders and along the edges of roads and trails. Native to the rocky prairies and savannas of the lower Midwest, Showy Evening Primrose is a wonderful wildflower for roadside beautification, and the plant will readily form showy colonies on rocky highway rights of way or gravelly driveway edges. Pink Evening Primrose is easy to grow from seed, and Oenothera Speciosa seeds can simply be scattered outdoors where they are to grow if the ground is not too hard or densely vegetated.

PLANT PROFILE
Season: Perennial 
Height: 12-18 Inches 
Bloom Season: Spring/Summer
Environment: Sun/Partial Shade 
Soil Type: Average/Poor/Dry/Moist well-drained, pH 5.8-6.8
USDA Zones: 4-10

PLANTING INSTRUCTIONS
Sow Indoors: Winter/Spring (6-8 weeks before last frost) 
Sow Outdoors: Spring/Fall 
Seed Depth: Surface sowing - press seeds slightly into the soil
Germination Time: 20-45 Days

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WARRANTY

OVM Seeds (the seller) warrants seed to be of the variety and quantity advertised. For domestic U.S. shipments, safe delivery is guaranteed, and if the shipment is insured, the seeds lost or damaged during shipment will be replaced at seller's expense. Claims must be made within 15 days of shipment. All other replacements, refunds, returns and exchanges will be made at the sole discretion of the seller.

Seed is a live product which depends on many important related grower skills such as proper planting time, seed depth, type of soil, irrigation, proper use of fertilizers, weed controls, fungicides, insecticides, disease free soil, and reasonable weather conditions during the growing period. Germination is affected by such factors as temperature, moisture content, light intensity and contamination of planting media. These factors are totally out of the seller's control and are the buyer's responsibility and risk. Consequently, the seller cannot unconditionally guarantee seed to perform properly regardless of conditions or the buyer's methods or mistakes.

This is the sole warranty; we make no other, express or implied. We cannot guarantee establishment of seed due to various factors over which we have no control. Liability, whether contractual, for negligence or otherwise, is limited in all respects to the amount of the purchase price of the seeds, regardless of the nature, cause or extent of the loss. It is expressly agreed that this limited remedy is exclusive and that we shall not be liable for any damages over and above the purchase price of this product. And as a condition to any liability on our part, we must receive notice by registered mail of any claim.