These beautiful yellow flowers that resemble pink evening primroses have been blooming profusely this past week. I've got my Wildflowers of Texas book and the Wildflower.org website up... I believe they're stemless evening primroses (Oenothera triloba), which are part of the evening-primrose family, Onagraceae.So they're not buttercups!
P.S. James shot the photo...that's me and the bat house on the photo's right side.
UPDATE – MARCH 25, 2010 – I have an old copy of Roadside Flowers of Texas by Howard S. Irwin (1961), and this species once upon a time was/were called buttercups!
3 comments:
They've been popping up all over North Austin, too. I prefer the pink variety, but these are lovely, too.
I thought they were primrose, thanks for the informative post. I have been seeing them around town here in Round Rock.
When I was a little kid they were buttercups:) so they will remain that for me.
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