296 ONAGRACEAE (EVENING PRIMROSE FAMILY) 
doff her soft green hood and blossom — 
with a silken burst of sound.” Sweet 
odors pour from the pale yellow cups and 
attract the night-flying moths, which fer- 
tilize the flowers, and in the morning 
sunlight the blossoms droop and wither. 
Capsules an inch or more long, four-celled, 
slightly hairy, splitting at the top into a 
slender, vase-like shape; they sway on 
the tall stalks all winter and birds de- 
stroy many of the seeds in their foraging. 
(Fig. 206.) 
Means of control 
Cutting crown leaves from the roots 
with spud or hoe in the first season; close 
cutting of flowering stalks while in early 
bloom; plants with capsules formed 
Fic. 206.—Evening should be cut and burned, as they ripen 
Primr not ien- 
nis). wi z nothera bien- Oy the stalks. 
SUNDROPS 
CG nothera fruticdsa, L. 
(Knet fia fruticdsa, Raimann) 
Other English names: Day Primrose, Perennial Primrose. 
Native. Perennial. Propagated by seeds. 
Time of bloom: June to August. 
Seed-time: August to October. 
Range: Nova Scotia to Minnesota, southward to Georgia and 
Louisiana. 
Habitat: Dry soil; fields, meadows, and waste places. 
Stems rather slender, one to three feet tall, usually branched, 
finely hairy or sometimes smooth. Leaves alternate, oblong to 
lance-shaped, with few and shallow teeth, somewhat hairy, the 
lower ones with petioles, those on the stem sessile, the upper ones 
nearly linear. Flowers in terminal, leafy-bracted spikes, the blos- 
soms sometimes nearly two inches broad, the petals notched at the 
