Common
name: Showy Primrose, Pink Evening Primrose
Family: Onagraceae- Evening primrose family
Size: Up to 50 cm
Description: Upright to spreads over the ground, grow together in groups
Habitat: Various soils, full sun.
Flower:
- Cup-shaped shallow corolla (petals)
- Dark rosy pink 4 petals with white and yellow in the center
- With pink or red veins
- Solitary from leaf axil
- 7.5 cm across
- Very delicate
- Buds nodding, becoming erect as flowers open
Leaves and stem:
- Up to 7.5 cm long
- Long, alternate, entire, lobed or cleft near base
- Margins lobed, toothed or wavy
- Stems 1 or many from base, branching in upper division
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