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Definition of Oenothera macrocarpa
1. Noun. Evening-opening primrose of south central United States.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Oenothera Macrocarpa
Literary usage of Oenothera macrocarpa
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Torreya by Torrey Botanical Club (1904)
"iN 1813) has priority over " oenothera macrocarpa Pursh" (Fl. Am. Sept. 734.
1814). The name published by Pursh had been used in 1813 by Nuttall in Fraser's ..."
2. Early Western Travels, 1748-1846: A Series of Annotated Reprints of Some of by Reuben Gold Thwaites (1905)
"About the shelvings and crevices of the rocks, the slender corolla of the oenothera
macrocarpa, and the purple blossoms of ..."
3. Typical Forms and Special Ends in Creation by James McCosh (1857)
"Thus, in evening primrose, (oenothera macrocarpa, and also in 0. tenuifolia,)
the petals are yellow and the sepals purple. In some species of Ranunculus, ..."
4. The American Botanistedited by Willard Nelson Clute edited by Willard Nelson Clute (1901)
"... the leaves of the flower called oenothera macrocarpa, a bed of which was in
the garden immediately opposite the windows of the Manuscript Library, ..."
5. Studies in Gardening by Arthur Clutton-Brock (1916)
"When one considers that a single plant of oenothera macrocarpa costs sixpence,
whereas fifty plants may be raised from a penny packet of seed so as to ..."
6. Account of an Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains, Performed by Edwin James, Stephen Harriman Long, Thomas Say (1823)
"About the shelvings and crevices of the rocks, the slender corolla of the oenothera
macrocarpa, and the purple blossoms of the ..."
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