{"id":487,"date":"2008-03-04T15:51:03","date_gmt":"2008-03-04T23:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/portfolio\/dune-evening-primrose\/"},"modified":"2020-03-08T03:29:08","modified_gmt":"2020-03-07T19:29:08","slug":"dune-evening-primrose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/dune-evening-primrose.html","title":{"rendered":"Photo of Dune Evening Primrose"},"content":{"rendered":"

My favorite desert flower to photograph is the dune evening primrose<\/a> (Oenothera deltoides<\/a><\/em>). It is so elegant and striking that even a blind monkey with a broken camera can get a good shot of this flower. I’ve seen them in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park<\/a> during years of good spring bloom, this year being one of them. This from Sunday morning:<\/p>\n

\"Dune<\/a><\/p>\n

Dune primrose (white) and sand verbena (purple) bloom in spring in Anza Borrego Desert State Park, mixing in a rich display of desert color. Anza Borrego Desert State Park.
\nImage ID: 20464<\/a>
\nSpecies: Dune Evening Primrose<\/a>, Sand Verbena<\/a>, Oenothera deltoides<\/i><\/a>, Abronia villosa<\/i><\/a>
\nLocation: Anza-Borrego Desert State Park<\/a>, Anza Borrego<\/a>, California<\/a>, USA<\/a><\/p>\n

Found throughout the Mojave, Sonoran and Great Basin deserts of the southwest, dune evening primrose forms a soft white four-petal flower with yellow center, sometimes turning pink or light brown as they age. Dune evening primrose grows in clusters, often mixed with sand verbena<\/a>. Coyote Canyon in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park<\/a> is chock full of dune evening primrose right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My favorite desert flower to photograph is the dune evening primrose (Oenothera deltoides). It is so elegant and striking that even a blind monkey with a broken camera can get a good shot of this flower. I’ve seen them in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park during years of good spring bloom,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9099,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,67,379,133],"tags":[382,205,221,267,340],"class_list":{"0":"post-487","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-california","8":"category-desert","9":"category-the-american-southwest","10":"category-wildflowers","11":"tag-american-southwest","12":"tag-anza-borrego","13":"tag-california","14":"tag-landscape","15":"tag-wildflowers"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}