Calylophus serrulatus
 
Shrubby Evening-Primrose

Middle Stem

Oro Lake Regional Park
15-July-2010

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]