Oenothera curtifloraW.L.Wagner & Hoch

velvetweed

WFO wfo-0001281419 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Oenothera curtiflora, photographed by Zinogre
fig. a Zinogre, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2022-05-29 / obs. 201430869
Oenothera curtiflora, photographed by Zinogre
fig. b Zinogre, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 200732865
Oenothera curtiflora, photographed by Zinogre
fig. c Zinogre, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 200733276
Oenothera curtiflora, photographed by Andrew Tree
fig. d Andrew Tree, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 200735135
Oenothera curtiflora, photographed by Cleveland Powell
fig. e Cleveland Powell, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 192694750
Oenothera curtiflora, photographed by Zinogre
fig. f Zinogre, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 192775513
Oenothera curtiflora, photographed by Reid Hardin
fig. g Reid Hardin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 194190566
Oenothera curtiflora, photographed by Zinogre
fig. h Zinogre, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 197486679

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Flowering n = 485 observations

Peak flowering in Apr, from 485 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 9 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Gaura australis Griseb.
  • Gaura hirsuta Scheele
  • Gaura micrantha (Spach) D.Dietr.
  • Gaura mollis E.James
  • Gaura parviflora Douglas ex Lehm.
  • Gaura parviflora f. glabra Munz
  • Gaura parviflora var. lachnocarpa Weath.
  • Gaura parviflora var. typica Munz
  • Schizocarya micrantha Spach

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.