Scarlet Gaura

Gaura coccinea

Onagraceae (Evening Primrose Family)

▲▼ mature, flowering plants

▲▼ mature, flowering plants

▲▼ flowers

·                     Scarlet gaura:  (pp. 376-377 in Weeds of the Great Plains; not in Weeds of the Northast)

§  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