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Onagraceae The Willowherb Family Plantae The Onagraceae, also known as the Willowherb family or Evening Primrose family, is a family of flowering plants. The family includes about 640-650 species of herbs, shrubs, and trees in 20-24 genera. The family is widespread, on every continent from boreal to tropical regions. The family includes a number of popular garden plants, including evening primroses (Oenothera) and fuchsias (Fuchsia). Some, particularly the willowherbs (Epilobium) are common weeds in gardens, e.g. Fireweed. The family is characterised by flowers with usually four sepals and petals; in some genera (e.g. Fuchsia), the sepals are as brightly coloured as the petals, giving the impression of a flower with eight petals. The seeds are very small, in some genera (e.g. Epilobium) with a tuft of down and wind-dispersed, in others (e.g. Fuchsia), in a juicy epigynous berry and dispersed by birds. The leaves are commonly opposite or whorled, but are spirally arranged in some species; in most, they are simple and lanceolate in shape. The pollen grains in many genera are loosely held together by viscin threads, meaning that only bees that are morphologically specialized to gather this pollen can effectively pollinate the flowers (it cannot be held effectively in a typical bee scopa). Accordingly, nearly all of the bees that visit onagraceous flowers are floral specialists (oligoleges). The family is named after the genus Onagra (now known as Oenothera) in 1836 by J. Lindley in the second edition of Nat. Syst. Bot. http://www.botany.hawaii.edu/Faculty/Carr/onagr.htm Scientific Family name. Hint: Usually ends in "acea" Full Family List The Family Onagraceae belongs to the Order of Myrtales Main Diagram | Plant Order List ? Onagraceae Myrtales Order of Myrtles Malvidae Mallow Class Eurosids Real Rose Class Rosids Rose-Like Class Core Eudicots Main, Real, Two First-Leaves (Dicots) Eudicots Real, Two First-Leaves (Dicots) Mesangiospermae Half Capsule Seed Division Magnoliophyta Magnolia Division Spermatophytes Seed Plants Euphyllophytina Real Land Plants Polysporangiates Multiple Spore Sub-Kingdom Stomatophytes Air Pores Sub-Kingdom Embryophytes Multicellular Land Plants Streptobionta Multicellular Plants Plantae Plants Eukaryota Cells with a Nucleus Wild Clarkia Clarkia gardengeek - June 19, 2014 Elegant Clarkia Clarkia unguiculata cynthialou587 - August 12, 2012 Evening Primrose Producer - August 11, 2012 Willowherb Epilobium hornemannii forager - July 21, 2012 Evening Primrose Oenothera glazioviana gardengeek - June 16, 2012 Willow Gaura Gaura Parviflora Producer - June 12, 2012 Common Evening Primrose Oenothera biennis crystalskye - September 03, 2011 Mexican Primrose Oenothera speciosus (berlandieri) 'Rosea Thunder - June 16, 2010 Evening Primrose Oenothera biennis Thunder - June 12, 2010 Fragrant Evening Primrose Oenothera caespitosa gardengeek - June 10, 2010 Fuchsia Fuchsia gardengeek - January 05, 2010 Brinco de Princesa, Fuchsia Fuchsia hybrid heidbenati - August 22, 2009 Evening Primrose Oenothera glazioviana gardengeek - August 18, 2009 Brinco-de-Princesa Fuchsia hybrida genny_happy - August 05, 2009 Evening Primrose Oenothera_speciosa gardengeek - July 31, 2009 Horneman's Willowherb Epilobium hornemannii gardengeek - July 22, 2009 Fireweed Epilobium angustifolium gardengeek - July 13, 2009 California Fuschia,Garrett's Firechalice Epilobium canum gardengeek - July 08, 2009 Primrose Pinklady Oenothera speciosa gardengeek - July 02, 2009 Lavandula Evening-Primrose Calylophus lavandulifolia gardengeek - June 25, 2009 Diamond Clarkia Clarkia rhomboidea gardengeek - June 07, 2009 Evening Primrose Oenothera DrPerry - May 18, 2009 Fragrant Evening Primrose Oenothera caespitosa gardengeek - May 15, 2009 http://www.botany.hawaii.edu/Faculty/Carr/onagr.htm If you see any missing information, you can post it below. Comment: Fragrant Evening Primrose

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