Western evening-primrose

Description:

The first year basal rosette of Oenothera elata var.*hirsutissima (*treated also as subsp.). Rosette width was about 28 cm; a very robust rosette for this species and especially this early in the season. Plant first appeared last summer.In it is second and usually final season, it turns into something quite different.A native herbaceous species that has found a way to hang on in wet places in suburbia.February 28, 2016, Salt Lake County, Utah, about 4,335 ft.