Calylophus serrulatus
 
Shrubby Evening-Primrose

Pistil

Oro Lake Regional Park
15-July-2010

Note the hypanthium, sepals, petals, and stamens have been removed to reveal the style and stigma.

Budd's Flora and Flora of Alberta refer to this species as Oenothera serrulata, and that is the name used in reference to the key questions below.

Serrulata: Answers to key questions in Budd's Flora and Flora of Alberta leading to this species. 
plants with leafy stems; NOT [plants lacking leafy stems, leaves forming a rosette]
much-branched perennials with brown woody stems; NOT [plants without brown woody stems]
hypanthium funnelform
flowers yellow
stigma NOT deeply 4-cleft

 

Oenothera: Answers to key questions in Budd's Flora  and Flora of Alberta leading to this genus. 
hypanthium prolonged beyond the ovary
flower parts in 4?s; NOT [flower parts in 2?s]
sepals commonly reflexed; NOT [sepals erect]
petals yellow, white or pink; NOT [petals purplish]
anthers attached near their middle, usually versatile; NOT [anthers attached near their base, erect]
ovary 4-loculed; NOT [ovary2-loculed]
fruit a capsule; NOT [fruit nut-like]
fruit opening by valves; NOT [fruit indehiscent]
fruit opening with 4 valves; NOT [capsules opening with 2 valves]
fruit NOT covered with hooks; NOT [fruit covered with hooked bristles]
seeds lacking a coma; NOT [seeds with a tuft of hairs (coma) at one end]
fruit many-seeded; NOT [fruit 1-seeded]

 

Onagraceae: Answers to key questions in Budd's Flora  leading to this family. 
herbs; NOT [shrubs or trees]
plants terrestrial; NOT [plants aquatic; leaves submerged or floating], NOT [mud plants with small axillary flowers]
plants NOT with colored milky juice
plants with more than one normal leaf
leaves without stipules, or having glands; NOT [leaves with stipules]
plants without large petal-like bracts; NOT [plants with an involucre of 4 petal-like bracts]
flowers with two floral rings, and with each petal distinct from the others]
parts of flowers in twos or fours; NOT [parts of flowers mostly in fives]
calyx regular; NOT [calyx irregular, some sepals smaller than others]
stamens 10 or fewer; NOT [stamens usually more than 10]
styles single; NOT [styles 2 or more]
ovary inferior; NOT [ovary superior]