Oenothera epilobiifoliaKunth

WFO wfo-0000389381 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 6 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 6 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Oenothera epilobiifolia, photographed by sandy-espinozaf
fig. a sandy-espinozaf, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-04-29 / obs. 192028093
Oenothera epilobiifolia, photographed by sandy-espinozaf
fig. b sandy-espinozaf, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 108408866
Oenothera epilobiifolia, photographed by Sam Kieschnick
fig. c Sam Kieschnick, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 43582806
Oenothera epilobiifolia, photographed by Sam Kieschnick
fig. d Sam Kieschnick, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 43584140
Oenothera epilobiifolia, photographed by sandy-espinozaf
fig. e sandy-espinozaf, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 192028255
Oenothera epilobiifolia, photographed by sandy-espinozaf
fig. f sandy-espinozaf, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 108408890
Oenothera epilobiifolia, photographed by Ben Pritchard
fig. g Ben Pritchard, CC0 1.0 / obs. 179186840
Oenothera epilobiifolia, photographed by Eugenio Padilla
fig. h Eugenio Padilla, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 24069958

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Native range 11 botanical countries

Regions where Oenothera epilobiifolia is native: Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Peru, Venezuela Mexico CentralMexico GulfMexico NortheastMexico SoutheastMexico SouthwestColombiaCosta RicaEcuadorGuatemalaPeruVenezuela
Native distribution of Oenothera epilobiifolia, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Colombia CLM SOUTHERN AMERICA
Costa Rica COS
Ecuador ECU
Guatemala GUA
Peru PER
Venezuela VEN
Mexico Central MXC NORTHERN AMERICA
Mexico Gulf MXG
Mexico Northeast MXE
Mexico Southeast MXT
Mexico Southwest MXS

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 2 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Hartmannia epilobiifolia (Kunth) Spach
  • Oenothera ascendens Willd. ex Spreng.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.