Cutleaf Evening-primrose

As the name infers, the flowers of this plant open at night. Once the sun starts coming up, the flowers will begin to wilt. By night fall the flowers are spent.



Can be grown as a groundcover but probably best welcomed into a multi-species planting where its flowers bring color to an planting of low greenery.

Not salt tolerant of inundation by salty or brackish water.



Some tolerance to salty wind but not direct salt spray.

This species can be weedy.

Bobwhite, mourning dove and gold finches feed on the seeds

Cutleaf evening-primrose is found most often in sandy and limerock based soils, and favors disturbed areas.

• Showy flowers
• Attracts native bees, butterflies and moths.  Especially interesting to native bees.