Flower Color:
Bright yellow with a 24 hour lifespan. Each flower opens in the evening, then closes the next afternoon just before the next set of flowers open up, and dries to a pinkish, crumpled wad.
Flower Season:
Late Spring into Summer
Fruit:
A cylindrical seed capsule located behind the sepals in what looks like the enlarged top portion of the flower stalk.
Thorns:
No
Allergies:
Unknown
This plant tolerates weekly water only in very well drained soil, and therefore requires very infrequent watering once established. It does not like high humidity. Attracts butterflies, sphinx moths, bees, and birds. This plant is pollinated by sphinx moths.