Need Help Identifying Wildflowers & Plants

Chickie · 08-31-2011, 01:21 PM

I set out on a field trip to my back yard this morning in hopes of finding the elusive yellow flower. I knew I had seen it somewhere in my travels. I found it growing near my rhubarb patch, beckoning me over to take a closer look. Then armed with my mother's "Flower Guide to Flowers East of the Rockies" (copyright 1916), I began my search for identification. I believe it is one of two options (both members of the same family of plants). It is either the Evening Primrose or the Sundrop. I tend to lean on the side of the Primrose but it could be either. Of the Primrose it says, "It is an exceedingly common biennial plant of nocturnal habits, the flowers spreading wide at dusk and partly or wholly closing the next morning." I Googled the names and found numerous photos, so you can draw your own conclusions.

08-31-2011, 01:21 PM	#11
Chickie Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 370 Thanks: 0 Thanked 67 Times in 38 Posts	Identification of Yellow Flower I set out on a field trip to my back yard this morning in hopes of finding the elusive yellow flower. I knew I had seen it somewhere in my travels. I found it growing near my rhubarb patch, beckoning me over to take a closer look. Then armed with my mother's "Flower Guide to Flowers East of the Rockies" (copyright 1916), I began my search for identification. I believe it is one of two options (both members of the same family of plants). It is either the Evening Primrose or the Sundrop. I tend to lean on the side of the Primrose but it could be either. Of the Primrose it says, "It is an exceedingly common biennial plant of nocturnal habits, the flowers spreading wide at dusk and partly or wholly closing the next morning." I Googled the names and found numerous photos, so you can draw your own conclusions.