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Oenothera curtiflora
Also called Lizardtail, Small Flower Gaura, Velvetleaf Gaura, Velvety Gaura, Willow Gaura, Small Flowered Gaura, Smallflower Gaura
Velvetweed (Oenothera curtiflora, also sold as Gaura parviflora) is a native annual or biennial wildflower of the central US and northern Mexico, grown for its small, night-opening pink flowers. It is easy to grow from seed in sun and poor-to-average soil.
Oenothera curtiflora (syn. Gaura parviflora), known as velvetweed, velvety gaura, downy gaura, or smallflower gaura, is a species of flowering plant native to the central United States and northern Mexico, from Nebraska and Wyoming south to Durango and Nuevo Leon.
Among the Zuni people, fresh or dried root would be chewed by medicine man before sucking snakebite and poultice applied to wound.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Oenothera curtiflora by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
