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Taxon: Oenothera oakesiana (A. Gray) J. W. Robbins ex S. Watson

Genus: Oenothera section: Oenothera subsection: Oenothera
Family: Onagraceae subfamily: Onagroideae tribe: Onagreae.
Nomen number: 100536
Place of publication: Bibl. index N. Amer. bot. 383. 1878 (Smithsonian Misc. Collect. 258:383. 1878)
Name verified on: 03-Mar-1998 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 13-Feb-2009
Species priority site is: Ornamental Plant Germplasm Center (OPGC).
Accessions: 25 in National Plant Germplasm System.
  • all available ) NPGS accessions ) or .
  • all available ) NPGS accessions by country.


Economic importance:


Distributional range:

      Native: (links to other web resources are provided for some distributions)
  • NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
    Eastern Canada: Canada - New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec
    Western Canada: Canada - Manitoba [s.e.]
    Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Connecticut, Indiana [n.w.], Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio [n.e.], Pennsylvania, Rhode Island
    North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Illinois [n.e.], Minnesota [n. & e.], Wisconsin
    Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Delaware, Maryland, North Carolina, Virginia

      Naturalized:
  • naturalized elsewhere in temperate regions

References:

  • Dietrich, W. et al. 1997. Systematics of Oenothera section Oenothera subsection Oenothera (Onagraceae). Syst. Bot. Monogr. 50:117. [lists as O. oakesiana (A. Gray) J. W. Robbins ex S. Watson & J. M. Coult.].
  • Munz, P. A. 1965. Onagraceae. In: Britton, N. L. et al., eds. ser. 1; C. T. Rogerson, ed. ser. 2, North American flora ser. 1, 1905-1957; ser. 2, 1954-1972 (N Amer fl) ser. 2, 5:123.
  • Raven, P. et al. 1979. An outline of the systematics of Oenothera subsect. Euoenothera (Onagraceae). Syst. Bot. 4:244.
  • Skvortsov, A. K. 1994. Byull. Moskovsk. Obshch. Isp. Prir., Otd. Biol. 99:105.
More:

Synonyms:


Check other databases for Oenothera oakesiana (A. Gray) J. W. Robbins ex S. Watson:

  • PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
  • TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
  • ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
  • AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
  • Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
    Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Check other databases for images:

  • PlantSystematics.org
  • Google Images Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

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USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program.
Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database].
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?100536 (09 February 2010)

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