Evening Primrose Live Plant, 3.5 Inch Pot

We'll begin shipping plants early to mid March, once temperatures are suitable to ensure your plants arrive healthy and happy.

Evening primrose opens its pale yellow flowers at dusk, sometimes so suddenly you can watch petals unfold. The flowers are short-lived — lasting only until the next morning — but produced prolifically throughout summer. This night-blooming habit attracts evening pollinators like moths, giving the plant a subtle magic that day-blooming flowers lack.

A biennial or short-lived perennial, evening primrose forms a rosette of leaves the first year and sends up flowering stalks the second. It self-seeds readily if happy, creating an ongoing presence. Full sun and decent drainage are all it asks — this is a prairie native that tolerates heat and drought. Plants can reach 3-5 feet when flowering.

Herbalists particularly value the oil from evening primrose seeds for its high GLA (gamma-linolenic acid) content. Native American tribes used evening primrose extensively, and the roots are edible and were once cultivated in Europe as a vegetable. Modern herbalists work with the seed oil for skin health and hormonal balance. The plant's association with evening and night gave it folkloric connections to the moon and feminine mysteries — a plant of transitions and thresholds.