Oenothera suffrutescens(Ser.) W.L.Wagner & Hoch

Scarlet Beeblossom

WFO wfo-0001281434 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Oenothera suffrutescens, photographed by Shalana Gray
fig. a Shalana Gray, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-06 / obs. 204171319
Oenothera suffrutescens, photographed by Shalana Gray
fig. b Shalana Gray, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201722289
Oenothera suffrutescens, photographed by Anders Hastings
fig. c Anders Hastings, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 198885733
Oenothera suffrutescens, photographed by Andrew Tree
fig. d Andrew Tree, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 197559424
Oenothera suffrutescens, photographed by Andrew Tree
fig. e Andrew Tree, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195640617
Oenothera suffrutescens, photographed by Bobby McCabe
fig. f Bobby McCabe, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 197531226
Oenothera suffrutescens, photographed by Elliott Gordon
fig. g Elliott Gordon, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 197555657
Oenothera suffrutescens, photographed by Dominic Gentilcore
fig. h Dominic Gentilcore, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 198532026

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Flowering n = 1,282 observations

Peak flowering in Jun, from 1,282 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 22 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 bracteata Ser.
  • Gaura coccinea Nutt.
  • Gaura coccinea var. arizonica Munz
  • Gaura coccinea var. coccinea
  • Gaura coccinea var. epilobioides (Kunth) Munz
  • Gaura coccinea var. glabra (Lehm.) Torr. & A.Gray ex Munz
  • Gaura coccinea var. integerrima Torr.
  • Gaura coccinea var. parvifolia (Torr.) F.C.Gates
  • Gaura coccinea var. parvifolia Rickett
  • Gaura coccinea var. parvifolia (Torr.) F.C.Gates
  • Gaura coccinea var. typica Munz
  • Gaura epilobioides Kunth
  • Gaura glabra Lehm.
  • Gaura induta Wooton & Standl.
  • Gaura linearis Wooton & Standl.
  • Gaura marginata Lehm.
  • Gaura multicaulis Raf.
  • Gaura odorata Lag.
  • Gaura parvifolia Torr.
  • Gaura spicata Moc., Sessé, Sessé & Moc.
  • Gaura suffrutescens Ser.
  • Schizocarya kunthii 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.