Plains evening primrose

Camissonia contorta is a species of flowering plant, known by the common name plains evening primrose, in the family Onagraceae. It is an annual herb producing a slender, bending to curling red or green stem which is sometimes hairy. It is up to 30 centimeters long and erect or spreading out. The blue-green leaves are linear to very narrowly oval in shape and up to 3.5 centimeters long. The nodding inflorescence produces one or more small flowers. Each has bright yellow petals up to half a centimeter long, sometimes with small red dots near the bases. The fruit is a capsule about 3 centimeters long, containing 50 -100 tiny seeds.

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Is it poisonous?

We have no record of Plains evening primrose being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.

Easily confused with

• Camissonia strigulosa
• Camissonia dentata
• Camissonia parvula
• Camissonia pusilla
• Camissoniopsis lewisii

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Myrtales

Family

Onagraceae

Genus

Camissonia

Species

Camissonia contorta

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