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Botany 122:
Flowering Plant Identification

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Onagraceae: Evening Primrose Family

Family: Onagraceae: Evening Primrose Family
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Habit Herbs or shrubs
Stem: various
Leaves: Simple
Inflorescence: Raceme or spike
Flower: Perfect, regular, epigynous
Perianth: 4-(5)-merous
Calyx: 4 sepals
Corolla: 4 petals
Hypanthium: Present
Androecium: 8 stamens
Gynoecium: Syncarpous 4
Ovary position: Inferior
Stigma: {stigma_edit}
Style: Not distinctive
Fruit type: Capsule
Other:
Representatives: Evening Primrose, Camissonia, Oenothera, Clarkia,

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