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Evening Primroses
Every rated Oenothera record is fire-resistant — 5 of 7 records, including the genus rated as a group; none is condemned. These counts describe the cited records — 7 records carrying 27 evidence rows from 17 cited sources; they do not make one verdict for the genus.
Rated as a group: Evening primrose Oenothera Fire-resistant Consensus 11 sources rate the genus as a
whole. Species evidence never rolls upward into a genus verdict, and genus claims never
override a species record.
› Fire-resistant
4 species
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Berlander's sundrop Fire-resistant Oenothera berlandieri - Evening primrose Fire-resistant Oenothera missouriensis
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Missouri Evening Primrose Fire-resistant Oenothera macrocarpa -
Showy Primrose Fire-resistant Oenothera speciosa
Awaiting evidence
2 species
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Sundrops Awaiting evidence Oenothera fruticosa -
White Stemless Evening Primrose Awaiting evidence Oenothera caespitosa
About evening primroses
Corpus context. Oenothera is the directory's #100 largest of 550 genus groups: 7 records carrying 27 evidence rows from 17 cited sources, recorded as perennial , hardy across USDA zones 3–7. Those are corpus facts, not a whole-genus flammability claim.
More about Oenothera: Wikipedia — external references; not evidence sources.