Look for Evening Primrose along the main trail. This plant was photographed near the south end of Anderson Prairie Park.

Evening primrose is one of the prairie plants that thrive in disturbed areas, such as trail edges and overgrazed areas. Most plants find a niche in the thick prairie sod. A few, like evening primrose are native prairie weeds that quickly colonize disturbed

areas, holding down the fort until the slower growing plants can gain a foothold.

It is one of three members of the evening primrose family found in Anderson Prairie. The others are prairie sundrops (Oenothera pilosella) and seedbox (Ludwigia alternifolia).

True to its name, the flowers open in the evening.