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 4 species at risk.

Chimney SwiftThreatenedBird
It catches every meal on the wing. Native plants sustain the insects it lives on.
Common NighthawkThreatenedBird
Its dusk call is going quiet. It hunts the night-flying moths that evening-primrose and milkweed raise.
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 Greg Schechter, 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