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Oenothera cinerea subsp. parksii
Photo is of parent taxon

Parks' beeblossom
Habit Herbs densely soft-villous, hairs mostly appressed, also hispidulous, branches of inflorescences glabrous.
Leaves

blade narrowly oblanceolate or oblanceolate to narrowly elliptic, margins shallowly sinuate-dentate.
Flowers

floral tube 1.5–4 mm;

petals 7–12 mm;

style 9–16 mm.
2n

= 14.

Oenothera cinerea subsp. parksii
Phenology Flowering (Apr–)May–Aug(–Oct).
Habitat Flats and hills of red sand local on Rio Grande Plain.
Elevation 100–200 m. (300–700 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
TX
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Discussion

Subspecies parksii is known from a narrow area of south Texas, including Atascosa, Bexar, Dimmit, Frio, Guadalupe, Jim Hogg, Maverick, Medina, Wilson, Zapata, and Zavala counties.

(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. cinerea
Synonyms Gaura villosa var. parksii, G. villosa subsp. parksii
Name authority (Munz) W. L. Wagner & Hoch: Syst. Bot. Monogr. 83: 211. (2007)
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