| Description | A tall lanky biennial wild flower with flowers borne on flimsily wands. |
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| Plant Type | All Plants, Wild Flowers |
| Hardiness Zone | 5 |
| Sunlight | full |
| Moisture | average, moist |
| Soil & Site | average |
| Flowers | 4-parted, pink to red, borne on branched panicles, open in evening and are moth pollinated, a biennial flowering second year |
| Fruit | nut-like fruit in closed capsules, |
| Leaves | green, simple, alternate lance-shaped to oblong, branches in the upper half of the plant, first year exists as a basal rosette of leaves |
| Dimensions | 3-6 feet tall, erect |
| Propagation | seeds |
| Misc Facts | The genus Gaura comes from the Greek "gauros" (superb) referring to the flowers. Species biennis from the fact the plant is a biennial. |
| Notes & Reference | #56-Tall Grass Prairie Wildflowers (Doug Ladd), #100-Wildflowers of Wisconsin and the Upper Midwest (Merel Black and Emmet Judziewicz), #140-Prairie Plants of the UW Madison Arboretum (Theodore Cochrane, Kandis Elliot, Claudia Lipke), Plants Alive web site (Sue Eland) |
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