Scarlet Gaura
Scarlet Gaura
Gaura coccinea
Onagraceae (Evening Primrose Family)
▲ ▼ mature, flowering plants
▲ ▼ mature, flowering plants
▲ ▼ flowers
▲ ▼ flowers
Scarlet gaura:
- a lower-growing, much-branched simple perennial with smaller, pubescent leaves, compared to biennial gaura
- native to Midwest prairies and great plains
- flowers pink to red in dense terminal racemes--usually only a few open at one time
- not palatable to livestock, but consumed by wildlife
- not usually much of a problem as a weed