What is this plant? I had a bag of mixed flower seeds in this garden bed, but suspect this is a weed. I live in Victoria, Australia if this helps 🙂

by Bottle-07

11 Comments

  1. eminencefront221

    I think it’s a primrose…we have biennial primrose that grow wild like that in NY.

  2. Available_Growth_573

    Maybe it is oenothera biennis? I think it is from northamerica so i could be confusing it but you can try to search for images of this species and compare tp yours

  3. DEdwardPossum

    Looks like a evening primrose. If it is, it is a biannual that will often self seed. Not really invasive/aggressive ( at least in it’s native area), but might need to thin seedlings if it is in a happy spot. Nice plant to have.

  4. I have a variant of these called Hooker’s Evenings.

  5. They get kinda rangy but I let some grow as they have nice flowers and aren’t rude to my garden, easy to pull the ones you don’t want

  6. OP, with some water and fertilizer evening primrose will get bush-sized. Personally I like them but they’re native in my country. I guess you have to consider invasiveness but it’s a nice non-native nonetheless.

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