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Gaura
3 August 2025
Oenothera lindheimeri
86% certain
- Family
- Onagraceae
- Origin
- Texas and Louisiana
- Bloom season
- Late spring until frost
- Colors
- white, pink
- Habitat
- Prairie edges, gravel gardens, and airy borders
- Symbolism
- Lightness, restlessness, and a prairie wind
A wiry perennial with white or pink four-petaled flowers that dance on thin stems, like moths that never quite land.
Care. Plant in full sun and lean, well-drained soil; too much water makes it flop.
A note. Gardeners still call it gaura, though botanists moved it into the evening-primrose genus Oenothera.
Or perhaps
- Pentas — 13%
- Jasmine — 5%
Notes on the photograph
Copied from the marks left by the camera.
- Captured
- Aug 3, 2025, 3:32 PM
- Camera
- Apple iPhone 14 Pro Max
- Lens
- iPhone 14 Pro Max back triple camera 9mm f/2.8
- Focal length
- 9mm
- Aperture
- f/2.8
- Shutter
- 1/144s
- ISO
- 32
- Dimensions
- 4032 × 3024
Where it was found
The place is taken from the photograph's own memory, if any.
4.6679° N, 74.0985° W
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