Biennial Gaura - Oenothera gaura
Above: Biennial Gaura along banks of Marion Dunn Pond in Madison, Wisconsin. (8/21/20).
Biennial Gaura - Oenothera gaura/Gaura biennis
The Biennial Gaura is a native grows sunny, dry areas including prairies, woods and shores.
Biennial Gaura flowers are pink to red, 4-parted and 1/2"-1 1/4" wide. The four petals are all on one side of the flower.
Biennial Gaura can grow to reach 6 feet tall. Oenothera gaura is a biennial plant, meaning it completes its life cycle over the course of two growing seasons, in which it will usually reach full maturity towards the end of the second growing season.
Above: Biennial Gaura along banks of Marion Dunn Pond in Madison, Wisconsin. (8/13/18).
Above: Biennial Gaura stem and leaves growing near Marion Dunn Pond in Madison, Wisconsin. (8/01/21).
For more information on the Biennial Gaura, visit Wikipedia.
Or, visit the UW-Madison Wisconsin State Herbarium website page about Biennial Gaura - Oenothera gaura.
Biennial Gaura
Oenothera gaura
Above: Biennial Gaura on shore of Marion Dunn Pond in Madison, Wisconsin. (7/23/21).
Above: Biennial Gaura on shore of Marion Dunn Pond in Madison, Wisconsin. (8/13/18).
Above: Biennial Gaura on shore of Marion Dunn Pond in Madison, Wisconsin. (8/15/18).
Above: Biennial Gaura on shore of Marion Dunn Pond in Madison, Wisconsin. (8/03/19).
Above: Biennial Gaura on shore of Marion Dunn Pond in Madison, Wisconsin. (8/21/19).
Above: Biennial Gaura in Oak Savanna in Madison, Wisconsin. (8/21/19).
Above: Biennial Gaura on shore of Marion Dunn Pond in Madison, Wisconsin. (8/22/19).
Above: Biennial Gaura on shore of Marion Dunn Pond in Madison, Wisconsin. (8/23/19).
Above: Biennial Gaura on shore of Marion Dunn Pond in Madison, Wisconsin. (9/01/19).
Above: Biennial Gaura on shore of Marion Dunn Pond in Madison, Wisconsin. (8/21/20).
