FREE: 100+ Yellow Evening Primrose

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The evening primrose plant is one of the few native wildflowers in North America. As the name suggests, the yellow evening primrose blooms at night. It produces lovely yellow flowers from May to July.

It is considered to have a wide array of medicinal uses from relieving headaches and inducing labor to curing baldness and as a treatment for laziness.

All parts if the evening primrose plant can also be eaten. The leaves are eaten like leaves and the roots are eaten like potatoes.

The yellow evening primrose plant is happiest in dry open areas similar to the open meadows where they thrive in the wild.

Simply spread the seeds where you would like them to grow and as long as it is not too wet, the yellow evening primrose will happily grow.

It is a biennial that will re-seed itself wherever you plant it, but it is not very invasive and will remain well behaved in your flower beds.

Common Names: Evening Primrose, Suncups, Sundrops, Buttercups.

Life Cycle: Hardy annual. Hardy biennial. Hardy perennial commonly grown as a hardy annual by gardeners.

Height: 4 to 120 inches
Native: Americas.
Growing Region: Zones 4 to 9.
Flowers: Spring and summer.
Flower Details: Yellow, Cup-shaped.
Foliage: Basal rosette. Dentate. Deep lobes.

Sow Outside: Cover seed. Start of spring or in autumn (warm areas). Spacing 4 to 40 inches (10 to 100 cm).

Sow Inside: Use peat pots. Germination time: one week to one month. Temperature 70°F (21°C). Nine or ten weeks before expected last frost.

Transplant outdoors following the last frost.

Requirements: Full sunlight or light shade. Good drainage. Soil pH 5.5 to 7. Sandy soil. Light soils. Can survive in dry soils.

Prune once flowering has completed.

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These seeds are organic and freshly harvested Sept. 2014.

These will be shipped 1st Class mail thru the USPS.