Common Evening-Primrose

Oenothera biennis

A night's hunting for the Little Brown Bat

Disease wiped out most of them. A single bat eats thousands of insects a night, the ones night-blooming natives raise.

⚠ Supports a species at risk

Who this brings back

Supports 3 species at risk.

Chimney SwiftThreatenedBird
It catches every meal on the wing. Native plants sustain the insects it lives on.
Eastern Whip-poor-willThreatenedBird
Named for its haunting call, now seldom heard. It depends on the large moths native plants raise.

Photos: Photo by Andrew C, CC BY 2.0 · Photo by Dominic Sherony, CC BY-SA 2.0

Where it grows

Prairies, old fields, and roadsides.

Other plants the Little Brown Bat needs