Outdoor Hour Challenges - Summer Series #9 - Evening PrimroseWe were so excited when we realized we had Evening Primrose growing in our wild side yard that we did this challenge over the weekend. Here A and N are looking at the plant during the day when the flowers are closed.
Later, after baths and pajamas, we headed outside to watch the flowers open. There were many excited exclamations of "Mom, it moved!"
A flower up close - we also headed out later, when it was darker, to watch for insects. We saw a number of moths coming to drink from the flowers, but weren't able to get any good pictures!
We found this flower in our book A Pocket Guide to Herbs. The kids enjoyed learning about the Native Americans, as well as people today, using it for medicinal purposes.
Several Evening Primrose plants
Later, after baths and pajamas, we headed outside to watch the flowers open. There were many excited exclamations of "Mom, it moved!" 
A flower up close - we also headed out later, when it was darker, to watch for insects. We saw a number of moths coming to drink from the flowers, but weren't able to get any good pictures!
We found this flower in our book A Pocket Guide to Herbs. The kids enjoyed learning about the Native Americans, as well as people today, using it for medicinal purposes. 
Several Evening Primrose plants
We really enjoyed this challenge and the kids keep asking when they can go out at night to watch the flowers again.
Totally awesome.....great job on this challenge. You have some in your yard too so that is perfect for this sort of nature study. I love that they saw some moths and that they learned about medicinal uses of the plant.
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for sharing your study. I would love to have it in the OHC blog carnival:
http://blogcarnival.com/bc/cprof_9182.html