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The genus Oenothera is in the family Onagraceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Oenothera

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See "Status", "Confidence level", "Source" for definitions.

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Oenothera acaulis Cav.	Accepted		TRO
Oenothera affinis Cambess.	Accepted		TRO
Oenothera amplexicaulis (Wooton & Standl.) Tidestr.	Accepted		TRO
Oenothera arequipensis Munz & I.M. Johnst.	Accepted		TRO
Oenothera arizonica (Munz) W.L. Wagner	Accepted		TRO
Oenothera avita (W.M. Klein) W.M. Klein	Accepted		TRO
Oenothera bahia-blancae W. Dietr.	Accepted		TRO
Oenothera biennis L.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Oenothera brachycarpa A. Gray	Accepted		TRO
Oenothera catharinensis Cambess.	Accepted		TRO
Oenothera centaurifolia Steud.	Accepted		TRO
Oenothera coquimbensis Gay	Accepted		TRO
Oenothera cruciata (S. Watson) Munz	Accepted		TRO
Oenothera ctenophylla (Wooton & Standl.) Tidestr.	Accepted		TRO
Oenothera curtiflora W.L. Wagner & Hoch	Accepted		TRO
Oenothera deserticola (Loes.) Munz	Accepted		TRO
Oenothera drummondii Hook.	Accepted		TRO
Oenothera elata Kunth	Accepted		TRO
Oenothera elongata Rusby	Accepted		TRO
Oenothera engelmannii (Small) Munz	Accepted		TRO
Oenothera epilobiifolia Kunth	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Oenothera featherstonei Munz & I.M. Johnst.	Accepted		TRO
Oenothera flava (A. Nelson) Munz	Accepted		TRO
Oenothera glazioviana Micheli	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Oenothera grisea (Bartlett) Rostanski	Accepted		TRO
Oenothera guttata (Greene ex R.R. Gates) Cockerell	Accepted		TRO
Oenothera hamata (Wooton & Standl.) Tidestr.	Accepted		TRO
Oenothera hirsuta (Spach) Walp.	Accepted		TRO
Oenothera indecora Cambess.	Accepted		TRO
Oenothera jamesii Torr. & A. Gray	Accepted		TRO
Oenothera kunthiana (Spach) Munz	Accepted		TRO
Oenothera laciniata Hill	Accepted		TRO
Oenothera lasiocarpa Griseb.	Accepted		TRO
Oenothera longipedicellata (Small) B.L. Rob.	Accepted		TRO
Oenothera longituba W. Dietr.	Accepted		TRO
Oenothera macbrideae (A. Nelson) A. Heller	Accepted		TRO
Oenothera macrocarpa Nutt.	Accepted		TRO
Oenothera macrosceles A. Gray	Accepted		TRO
Oenothera magallanica Phil.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Oenothera mckelveyae (Munz) W.L. Wagner & Hoch	Accepted		TRO
Oenothera mendocinensis Gillies ex Hook. & Arn.	Accepted		TRO
Oenothera mollissima L.	Accepted		TRO
Oenothera montana Nutt.	Accepted		TRO
Oenothera montevidensis W. Dietr.	Accepted		TRO
Oenothera multicaulis Ruiz & Pav.	Accepted		TRO
Oenothera nana Griseb.	Accepted		TRO
Oenothera neomexicana (Small) Tidestr.	Accepted		TRO
Oenothera nocturna Jacq.	Accepted		TRO
Oenothera oakesiana (A. Gray) J.W. Robbins ex S. Watson & J.M. Coult.	Accepted		TRO
Oenothera odorata Jacq.	Accepted		TRO
Oenothera orizabae W.L. Wagner	Accepted		TRO
Oenothera parodiana Munz	Accepted		TRO
Oenothera parviflora L.	Accepted		TRO
Oenothera pedunculifolia W. Dietr.	Accepted		TRO
Oenothera perennis L.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Oenothera peruana W. Dietr.	Accepted		TRO
Oenothera pratensis (Small) B.L. Rob.	Accepted		TRO
Oenothera primiveris A. Gray	Accepted		TRO
Oenothera psammophila (A. Nelson & J.F. Macbr.) Wagner et al.	Accepted		TRO
Oenothera pubescens Willd. ex Spreng.	Accepted		TRO
Oenothera punae Kuntze	Accepted		TRO
Oenothera rivadaviae W. Dietr.	Accepted		TRO
Oenothera rosea L'Hér. ex Aiton	Accepted		TRO
Oenothera sandiana Hassk.	Accepted		TRO
Oenothera santarii W. Dietr.	Accepted		TRO
Oenothera seifrizii Munz	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Oenothera siambonensis W. Dietr.	Accepted		TRO
Oenothera simplex (Small) Tidestr.	Accepted		TRO
Oenothera speciosa Nutt.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Oenothera stricta Ledeb. ex Link	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Oenothera tetraptera Cav.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Oenothera texensis P.H. Raven & D.R. Parn.	Accepted		TRO
Oenothera utahensis (Small) Garrett	Accepted		TRO
Oenothera veitchiana (Hook.) Tidestr.	Accepted		TRO
Oenothera verrucosa I.M. Johnst.	Accepted		TRO
Oenothera versicolor Lehm.	Accepted		TRO
Oenothera villaricae W. Dietr.	Accepted		TRO
Oenothera villosa Thunb.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Oenothera wolfii (Munz) P.H. Raven, W. Dietr. & Stubbe	Accepted		TRO

Statistics

The Plant List includes 704 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Oenothera. Of these 79 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 325 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Oenothera. We do not intend The Plant List to be complete for names of infraspecific rank. These are primarily included because names of species rank are synonyms of accepted infraspecific names.

Species names

The status of the 704 species names for the genus Oenothera recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	79	11.2%
◕	Synonym	263	37.4%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	362	51.4%

All names

The status of the 1,029 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Oenothera recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	112	10.9%
◕	Synonym	464	45.1%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	453	44.0%

The confidence with which the status of the 704 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Oenothera, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	73	241	0	0	314	44.6%
	Low confidence	6	22	0	362	390	55.4%

The source of the species name record found in The Plant List for the genus Oenothera, are as follows: