Flora of North America species comparison

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Oenothera cinerea subsp. cinerea
Photo is of parent taxon

high-plains beeblossom
Habit Herbs densely soft-villous, hairs mostly appressed, also strigillose, rarely glandular puberulent, branches of inflorescences glabrous or sparsely glandular puberulent.
Leaves

blade narrowly lanceolate to very narrowly elliptic or linear, sometimes narrowly elliptic to lanceolate or narrowly oblanceolate proximally, margins subentire or shallowly sinuate-dentate, sometimes markedly so.
Flowers

floral tube 2–5 mm;

petals 8.5–13 mm;

style 10–19 mm.
2n

= 14.

Oenothera cinerea subsp. cinerea
Phenology Flowering May–Aug.
Habitat Sandy flats and dunes on high plains and rolling plains.
Elevation 700–1700 m. (2300–5600 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
CO; KS; NJ; NM; OK; TX
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Discussion

Subspecies cinerea is locally escaped in New Jersey. It occurs in northwestern Texas, eastern New Mexico, southeastern-most Colorado, southwestern Kansas(one station farther north, in Ellis County), and the western half of Oklahoma.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 10.
Parent taxa Onagraceae > subfam. Onagroideae > tribe Onagreae > Oenothera > sect. Gaura > subsect. Stipogaura > Oenothera cinerea
Sibling taxa
O. cinerea subsp. parksii
Synonyms Gaura villosa, G. villosa var. arenicola
Name authority unknown
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