Evening Primrose
Oenothera rosea
Observed at Nairobi, Kenya. Dec. 2015.
LEAVES: Thin, herbaceous leaves have a few scattered teeth and are elliptical in shape.
HERB: Leaves and stems are mostly herbaceous.
FLOWERS: Pink flowers have four petals, four sepals, eight stamens and four stigma lobes.
FRUIT: The elongated capsule of numerous seeds develops below the petal and sepal attachments.
RANGE: Native to the Americas, but widely escaped from cultivation in Kenya and elsewhere in Africa.