Plant Oenothera biennis (Onagraceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Evening-Primrose

How this plant is used

Food

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List of plant chemicals.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Chemical Name	Activity Count	Plant Part	Low Parts Per Million	High Parts Per Million	Standard Deviation	Reference
MYRISTIC-ACID	6	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NEO-CHLOROGENIC-ACID	2	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
O-COUMARIC-ACID	4	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
O-VANILLIC-ACID	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OBTUSIFOLIOL	0	Seed	26.0	56.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OENOTHEIN-A	1	Leaf	not available	1250.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OENOTHERIN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OLEIC-ACID	18	Seed	15000.0	50000.0	-0.57	Duke, 1992 *
OLEIC-ACID	18	Seed Essent. Oil	not available	120000.0	-0.71	Duke, 1992 *
OLEIC-ACID	18	Seed Oil	22000.0	119000.0	-1.06	Duke, 1992 *
P-COUMARIC-ACID	25	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
P-HYDROXY-BENZOIC-ACID	13	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
P-HYDROXYPHENYLACETIC-ACID	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PALMITIC-ACID	13	Seed	7500.0	31590.0	-0.05	Duke, 1992 *
PALMITIC-ACID	13	Seed Oil	17000.0	86000.0	-0.64	Duke, 1992 *
PALMITOLEIC-ACID	2	Seed Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHENYLALANINE	7	Seed	6900.0	7364.0	-0.50	Duke, 1992 *
PHLOBAPHENE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHOSPHORUS	4	Plant	1700.0	3700.0	0.05	Duke, 1992 *
PHOSPHORUS	4	Seed	4100.0	7257.0	0.50	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Antiimplantation	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiimpotence	2	Martindale's 29th
Antiinfarctal	1	Soumyanath, A. Ed. 2006. Traditional Medicines for Modern Times - Antidiabetic Plants. CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group. Boca Raton, FL. 314 pp.
Antiinfective	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiinfertility	3	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiinflammatory	23	Duke, 1992 *
Antiinsomniac	4	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiischemic	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
AntiLegionella	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antileishmanic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antilepric	1	Martindale's 29th
Antileukemic	8	Duke, 1992 *
Antileukonychic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antileukotriene	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antileukotriene-D4	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antilipolytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antilipoperoxidant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antilithic	3	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
AntiLyme	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antilymphocytic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.