Oenothera

Accepted species 165 Documented here 90 Family Onagraceae

Accepted species 165 in this genus

Every accepted species in the genus is listed. A name links to its page when we hold at least three commercially licensed photographs of it. Where we do not, the row shows how many we actually found, which is usually none.

SpeciesAuthority Usable photographsPage
Oenothera biennis L. 2,916 documented
Oenothera speciosa Nutt. 2,449 documented
Oenothera laciniata Hill 1,158 documented
Oenothera rosea Aiton 975 documented
Oenothera curtiflora W.L.Wagner & Hoch 793 documented
Oenothera suffrutescens (Ser.) W.L.Wagner & Hoch 633 documented
Oenothera elata Kunth 582 documented
Oenothera glazioviana Micheli 467 documented
Oenothera fruticosa L. 452 documented
Oenothera cespitosa Nutt. 412 documented
Oenothera suffulta (Engelm.) W.L.Wagner & Hoch 367 documented
Oenothera lindheimeri (Engelm. & A.Gray) W.L.Wagner & Hoch 366 documented
Oenothera capillifolia Scheele 326 documented
Oenothera drummondii Hook. 308 documented
Oenothera gaura W.L.Wagner & Hoch 308 documented
Oenothera triloba Nutt. 278 documented
Oenothera stricta Ledeb. 277 documented
Oenothera macrocarpa Nutt. 274 documented
Oenothera pallida Lindl. 231 documented
Oenothera simulans (Small) W.L.Wagner & Hoch 230 documented
Oenothera glaucifolia W.L.Wagner & Hoch 227 documented
Oenothera serrulata Nutt. 165 documented
Oenothera deltoides Torr. & Frém. 164 documented
Oenothera parviflora L. 141 documented
Oenothera avita (W.M.Klein) W.M.Klein 139 documented
Oenothera tetraptera Cav. 124 documented
Oenothera perennis L. 123 documented
Oenothera albicaulis Nutt. ex Pursh 116 documented
Oenothera villosa Thunb. 109 documented
Oenothera coronopifolia Torr. & A.Gray 89 documented
Oenothera linifolia Nutt. 88 documented
Oenothera lavandulifolia Torr. & A.Gray 85 documented
Oenothera hartwegii Benth. 79 documented
Oenothera primiveris A.Gray 78 documented
Oenothera mollissima L. 67 documented
Oenothera rhombipetala Nutt. ex Torr. & A.Gray 67 documented
Oenothera clelandii W.Dietr., P.H.Raven & W.L.Wagner 66 documented
Oenothera affinis Cambess. 64 documented
Oenothera filiformis (Small) W.L.Wagner & Hoch 64 documented
Oenothera humifusa Nutt. 62 documented
Oenothera pilosella Raf. 57 documented
Oenothera coryi W.L.Wagner 50 documented
Oenothera brachycarpa A.Gray 47 documented
Oenothera howardii (A.Nelson) M.E.Jones ex Prain 46 documented
Oenothera flava (A.Nelson) Garrett 41 documented
Oenothera argillicola Mack. 37 documented
Oenothera filipes (Spach) W.L.Wagner & Hoch 32 documented
Oenothera nuttallii Torr. & A.Gray 32 documented
Oenothera cinerea (Wooton & Standl.) W.L.Wagner & Hoch 30 documented
Oenothera tubicula A.Gray 29 documented
Oenothera oakesiana (A.Gray) J.W.Robbins ex S.Watson 28 documented
Oenothera podocarpa (Wooton & Standl.) Krakos & W.L.Wagner 28 documented
Oenothera centaureifolia Steud. 25 documented
Oenothera epilobiifolia Kunth 22 documented
Oenothera gayleana B.L.Turner & M.J.Moore 22 documented
Oenothera indecora Cambess. 22 documented
Oenothera xylocarpa Coville 22 documented
Oenothera acaulis Cav. 20 documented
Oenothera wigginsii W.M.Klein 20 documented
Oenothera grandis Smyth 19 documented
Oenothera toumeyi (Small) Tidestr. 19 documented
Oenothera canescens Torr. 18 documented
Oenothera kunthiana (Spach) Munz 14 documented
Oenothera pubescens Wild. ex Spreng. 13 documented
Oenothera boquillensis (P.H.Raven & D.P.Greg.) W.L.Wagner & Hoch 12 documented
Oenothera calcicola (P.H.Raven & D.P.Greg.) W.L.Wagner & Hoch 12 documented
Oenothera heterophylla Spach 12 documented
Oenothera jamesii Torr. & A.Gray 12 documented
Oenothera odorata Jacq. 12 documented
Oenothera coquimbensis Gay 10 documented
Oenothera deserticola (Loes.) Munz 10 documented
Oenothera mckelveyae (Munz) W.L.Wagner & Hoch 9 documented
Oenothera tetragona Roth 9 documented
Oenothera demareei (P.H.Raven & D.P.Greg.) W.L.Wagner & Hoch 8 documented
Oenothera engelmannii (Small) Munz 8 documented
Oenothera hexandra (Ortega) W.L.Wagner & Hoch 8 documented
Oenothera spachiana Torr. & A.Gray 8 documented
Oenothera organensis Munz ex S.Emers. 6 documented
Oenothera parodiana Munz 6 documented
Oenothera grisea W.Dietr. 5 documented
Oenothera hispida (Benth.) W.L.Wagner, Hoch & Zarucchi 5 documented
Oenothera neomexicana (Small) Munz 5 documented
Oenothera longissima Rydb. 4 documented
Oenothera × fallax Renner 3 documented
Oenothera arida W.L.Wagner & Hoch 3 documented
Oenothera harringtonii W.L.Wagner, Stockh. & W.M.Klein 3 documented
Oenothera havardii S.Watson 3 documented
Oenothera nana Griseb. 3 documented
Oenothera nutans G.F.Atk. & Bartlett 3 documented
Oenothera sessilis (Pennell) Munz 3 documented
Oenothera picensis Phil. 2 below the evidence gate
Oenothera sinuosa W.L.Wagner & Hoch 2 below the evidence gate
Oenothera versicolor Lehm. 2 below the evidence gate
Oenothera wolfii (Munz) P.H.Raven, W.Dietr. & Stubbe 2 below the evidence gate
Oenothera punae Kuntze 1 below the evidence gate
Oenothera verrucosa I.M.Johnst. 1 below the evidence gate
Oenothera × braunii Döll 0 below the evidence gate
Oenothera × clavifera Hudziok 0 below the evidence gate
Oenothera × drawertii Renner ex Rostański 0 below the evidence gate
Oenothera × polgari Rostański 0 below the evidence gate
Oenothera × purpurans (Borbás) Borbás 0 below the evidence gate
Oenothera acutifolia Rostański 0 below the evidence gate
Oenothera acutissima W.L.Wagner 0 below the evidence gate
Oenothera anomala Curtis 0 below the evidence gate
Oenothera arequipensis Munz & I.M.Johnst. 0 below the evidence gate
Oenothera arizonica (Munz) W.L.Wagner 0 below the evidence gate
Oenothera bahia-blancae W.Dietr. 0 below the evidence gate
Oenothera brandegeei (Munz) P.H.Raven 0 below the evidence gate
Oenothera breedlovei W.Dietr. & W.L.Wagner 0 below the evidence gate
Oenothera brevipetala W.Dietr. 0 below the evidence gate
Oenothera catharinensis Cambess. 0 below the evidence gate
Oenothera cavernae Munz 0 below the evidence gate
Oenothera coloradensis (Rydb.) W.L.Wagner & Hoch 0 below the evidence gate
Oenothera cordata J.W.Loudon 0 below the evidence gate
Oenothera curtissii Small 0 below the evidence gate
Oenothera dissecta A.Gray ex S.Watson 0 below the evidence gate
Oenothera dodgeniana Krakos & W.L.Wagner 0 below the evidence gate
Oenothera elongata Rusby 0 below the evidence gate
Oenothera falfurriae W.Dietr. & W.L.Wagner 0 below the evidence gate
Oenothera featherstonei Munz & I.M.Johnst. 0 below the evidence gate
Oenothera grandiflora L'Hér. 0 below the evidence gate
Oenothera heiniana Teyber 0 below the evidence gate
Oenothera lasiocarpa Griseb. 0 below the evidence gate
Oenothera longiflora L. 0 below the evidence gate
Oenothera longituba W.Dietr. 0 below the evidence gate
Oenothera luciae-julianiae W.L.Wagner 0 below the evidence gate
Oenothera macrosceles A.Gray 0 below the evidence gate
Oenothera magellanica Phil. 0 below the evidence gate
Oenothera maysillesii Munz 0 below the evidence gate
Oenothera mendocinensis Gillies ex Hook. & Arn. 0 below the evidence gate
Oenothera mexicana Spach 0 below the evidence gate
Oenothera montevidensis W.Dietr. 0 below the evidence gate
Oenothera moravica V.Jehlík & Rostański 0 below the evidence gate
Oenothera muelleri Munz 0 below the evidence gate
Oenothera multicaulis Ruiz & Pav. 0 below the evidence gate
Oenothera nealleyi (J.M.Coult.) Krakos & W.L.Wagner 0 below the evidence gate
Oenothera nocturna Jacq. 0 below the evidence gate
Oenothera orizabae W.L.Wagner 0 below the evidence gate
Oenothera patriciae W.L.Wagner & Hoch 0 below the evidence gate
Oenothera pedunculifolia W.Dietr. 0 below the evidence gate
Oenothera pennellii Munz 0 below the evidence gate
Oenothera peruana W.Dietr. 0 below the evidence gate
Oenothera platanorum P.H.Raven & D.R.Parn. 0 below the evidence gate
Oenothera psammophila (A.Nelson & J.F.Macbr.) W.L.Wagner, Stockh. & W.M.Klein 0 below the evidence gate
Oenothera pseudoelongata W.Dietr. 0 below the evidence gate
Oenothera ravenii W.Dietr. 0 below the evidence gate
Oenothera recurva W.Dietr. 0 below the evidence gate
Oenothera resicum Benavides, Kuethe, Ortiz-Alcaráz & León de la Luz 0 below the evidence gate
Oenothera riparia Nutt. 0 below the evidence gate
Oenothera riskindii W.L.Wagner 0 below the evidence gate
Oenothera rivadaviae W.Dietr. 0 below the evidence gate
Oenothera sandiana Hassk. 0 below the evidence gate
Oenothera santarii W.Dietr. 0 below the evidence gate
Oenothera scabra K.Krause 0 below the evidence gate
Oenothera seifrizii Munz 0 below the evidence gate
Oenothera siambonensis W.Dietr. 0 below the evidence gate
Oenothera stubbei W.Dietr., P.H.Raven & W.L.Wagner 0 below the evidence gate
Oenothera tafiensis W.Dietr. 0 below the evidence gate
Oenothera tamrae W.Dietr. & W.L.Wagner 0 below the evidence gate
Oenothera tarijensis W.Dietr. 0 below the evidence gate
Oenothera texensis P.H.Raven & D.R.Parn. 0 below the evidence gate
Oenothera triangulata (Buckley) W.L.Wagner & Hoch 0 below the evidence gate
Oenothera tubifera Ser. 0 below the evidence gate
Oenothera tucumanensis W.Dietr. 0 below the evidence gate
Oenothera villaricae W.Dietr. 0 below the evidence gate

Why some species have no pagethe gate

This site is commercial, so it can only publish photographs licensed for commercial use. Roughly three quarters of the photographs on iNaturalist are CC BY-NC, which excludes them. A species needs at least three usable photographs before we will build it a page, because a page with one picture and no traits tells you nothing you could not get from a search result, and generating hundreds of thousands of those is precisely the practice that got the previous version of this site deleted.

So the species above without a link are not errors and they are not omissions. They are real, accepted plants that we cannot yet document to the standard we hold ourselves to, and the count in the photographs column is exactly how far short we fall.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. Accepted names, authorities, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. Photograph counts, restricted to CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA. Retrieved 2026-06-27.