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n. - A day-flowering biennial or perennial of the genus Oenothera.

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  • Some of our best spring and summer perennials, including Becky daisies, sundrops
  • The Cottonwood area at the southern end of the Joshua Tree National Park is starting to sparkle with desert alyssum, sundrops, desert dandelion and beavertail cactus.
  • Italian arum, heucheras such as Bronze Wave and Citronelle, yuccas such as Color Guard and Sapphire Skies, Becky daisies, sundrops, Stokes aster, foamflowers, Georgia...
  • Just as your eye adjusts to the subtle shades of sage and silver and tawny gold, the grace of the draped forms of evergreens, suddenly you discover the gleaming lavender - leaf...
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