I have this flower which I don't know the name. Please help.

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I started with one plant and now it has occupied a corner of my garden  I think it is invasive.

Douglas Hunt · Answer

Lumen, you have a type of primrose, or Oenothera, and, yes, it is quite possible that you will soon have too much of a good thing.

Jeannine Maranchuk · Answer

Yes it is primrose and it is VERY invasive. I planted it once & OMG.....each one of the those flowers will house about 200 seeds. They are very tiny and you would do well to curb it now. I planted it back in Manitoba & it took over my garden. Watch out.

Peg · Answer

yellow evening primrose/Oenothera. I love them, such brilliant yellow flowers, they glow in the garden. I have mine growing in sun and in shade. Expect them to spread.

Barbara poole · Answer

Evening Primrose. If you get one you will always have them! Love watching them open around 9 pm each evening!

Rita C. - Panoply · Answer

I have done well to contain my primrose's enthusiasm although, I will admit, it has spread approx 4-5 feet over the course of 5 yrs. To contain it, I cut it all down as soon as the last bloom is spent. I love the sunny mass of color they bring. What growth spread I have, I am happy with, but one can always dig up/pull out what's unwanted.

Debbie Gilroy · Answer

I have lots of spots I could plant this and want it to spread.

Lumen Castaneda · Answer

Thanks Douglas for identifying the flower. And thanks for all the comments which are helpful. Debbie, where can I send you some of them?

Paula Canup · Answer

Looks like my yellow Michigan Primrose....not an evening primrose.

Gail Salminen · Answer

@Lumen Castaneda I have evening primrose as well and have had it for 25 years in our back garden. It does need to be culled back every few years, but I don't find it as invasive as other plants - never had to take the round up to it. I love the way it flowers most of the season and the leaves turn a bit red in the fall.

Lumen Castaneda · Answer

Yes, I agree Gail. they are very pretty and the yellow color is lovely. I have them in pots, too.

Billie Veach · Answer

Primrose is correct, here in Texas we have called them Buttercups.. we have pink and yellow>
in Central Texas we have a lot of 'wild' flowers growing in our fields and are beautiful in paintings and photos.. the last 8 years we have lost a lot of our plants and with Lady Bird and
her wild flower museum in Austin... many have let the wild flowers be the flowers of choice..
Starting in early Spring with the Bluebonnets, followed by other wild flowers we have them all
summer and into the fall.. I have my non-wild in large pots to better manage their watering and
feeding.. each year is a little hotter and less rain.. we have several blue flowering plants, the
wine cup, Indian Paint Brush -red, black-eye Susans, etc.. they are very showy in the fields and
large yards.

Elaine · Answer

Definetly in the primrose family, but I call them 4 o'clocks.  They need to be controlled.
Plant new plants in a tall flower pot with the bottom cut off.  The roots will grow down the side of the inside of the pot and not be able to run along the earth to grow new plants. Old ones will stay alive and pretty.

Mpenny · Answer

Lumen, I would love some of your flower.

Peg · Answer

I love them and don't mind thinning them out, I give the surplus to friends. They are some of the most brilliant yellow flowers I've seen!

Peg · Answer

one of my pics of the yellow evening primrose. I have the pink variety too. Different leaves than the yellow.

Lumen Castaneda · Answer

Thank you Peg. Yes, this is what I have. Only in yellow. Mpenny, where can I send you the plant? I give them away. It keeps on multiflying.

Lumen Castaneda · Answer

The pink would be lovely, too.

Cheryl Gough · Answer

Look like primroses, variety: sundrop. They do spread but once they are done blooming make a great ground cover.

Peg · Answer

These are what the pink ones look like. They don't grow as high as the yellow ones.

Lumen Castaneda · Answer

Peg, these are lovely. They look like somehow , hardy geranium although these are bigger.

S.venkatesan · Answer

THIS ONE IS AVARIETY OF HIBUSCOS--THIS WE CALL IT AS SEMPARUTHI,--THERE ARE MORE THAN 60 VARIETIES IN INDIA. COLOURS VARYING FROM RED, YELLOW. PINK, BLUE, SINGLEBETELS, MULTY BETELS AND SO ON..THESE ARE ANNUAL.

Lumen Castaneda · Answer

What I have is perennial which I had five years ago with a single plant and now there's a lot of them, on the ground and in pots.

Barbara poole · Answer

They reseed is what keeps them coming back. If you notice they are in different spots each year.

Lumen Castaneda · Answer

Mine is in the same place but they are growing in numbers and hugging my rose and other plants.

Peg · Answer

the pink evening primrose is also 'Oenothera' , called 'oenothera speciosa', also called 'showy evening primrose'. This particular yellow, because there are several, is 'oenthera fruticosa'/ sundrop. They have hairy leaves and stems. As you probably know, they grow runners under the soil and pop up to fill a garden.

Stephanie · Answer

i think it is a yellow buttercup......just purchase one....but not sure....

Lumen Castaneda · Answer

I did a research and I found one name associated with the flower and its called 'crimson creeper.' I am not sure it is the correct name.

Wilma williams · Answer

Looks like some yellow poppies that my mom planted. They came up every summer but one year the deer at the flowers off and they never came up again.

Porta Verde Studio · Answer

As is said in previous posts, its evening primrose. Their nice in the fall as the foliage turns a brilliant red.

Pat aka Queen of Thrift · Answer

It looks a lot like a plant that I have that is a pass along from my friend who got it from her mother in law in Virginia. Mine is an Ozark Sundrop. You can type that name in computer your search engine to see images and descriptions.

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