Gaura parviflora
Family: Onagraceae
Plant Description: Annual to 1.5 m or higher with oblanceolate to lanceolate leaves 2-15 cm long, alternate, margins entire. Plant with velvet hair throughout. Flowers in spikes, the petals 2-4 mm long, white turning pink or rose.
Plant Trivia:
Field Identification: To about 50 cm high the plant is a single, erect structure. It then bifurcates forming two branches in a “V” pattern.
Occurrence: Frequent on various soils in stream bottoms, ravines, ditches, and waste places.
Bloom Period: March-August
Plant Use: Good nectar source for insects.
Key to the seven Gaura species is in Plants of the Texas Coastal Bend by Roy L. Leyman, Ruth O’Brien and tammy White. :
stxflora 