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Descriptive Flora 



ance but having purple or rose-purple petals, smaller flowers 

 (iy 2 to 21/2 inches across), and club-shaped and longer fruits 

 (1 to iy 2 inches). Not as common as Hartmannia speciosa. 



Hartmannia rosea (Ait.) G. Don. "Amapola". 



Evening Primrose. 



Similar to Hartmannia speciosa but blades of leaves shorter 

 (1 to 2*4"), flowers deep pink or purple, % to 1" across, and 

 capsules club-shaped, y 2 to long, the body 4-angled and 

 shorter than the long pedicel-like base. 



Gaura parviflora Dougl. Wild Honeysuckle. 



Velvet-leaf Gaura. 



Tall, simple stemmed, velvety leaved plants widely branch- 

 ing above, each branch ending in a pink to rose-colored, weak 

 and slender spike, usually with a drooping tip. Leaves simple, 

 alternate. Blades ovate-lanceolate, entire or sparingly toothed, 

 soft-velvety, iy 2 to 3" long. Petals 4, minute. Stamens 8. 

 Stigma 4-lobed. Fruit slender pods about 14" long, tapering at 

 both ends and forming up the spike as it lengthens and forms 

 new blossoms. May to late summer. Along roadsides and in 

 pastures. These plants grow shoulder tall in wet seasons. 



Gaura suffulta Engelm. Bee Blossom. 



Wild Honeysuckle. Kisses. 

 Hairy plants, 1 to 3 feet tall, sparingly branched at the base, 

 and fragrant with long racemes of fresh white flowers about %" 

 across that open a few each evening about 1" below the tip and 

 turn deep pink or scarlet the following day. Petals 4, always 

 erect, about %" long, white, narrowed at the base. Stamens 8, 

 spreading downward, conspicuous. Fruit a 4-angled pod, less 

 than 14" l° n g> broad at base and tapering rapidly toward the tip. 

 and forming up the ever lengthening spire below the blossoms. 

 Leaf-blades broadly linear to spatulate, wavy or sparingly and 

 shallow^ toothed, 1 to 2y 2 " long, usually on the crowded lower 

 third of the plant, the upper two-thirds being the slender naked 

 stem on which the flowers form. 



