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Common name: slenderstalk beeblossom
 
Common name: slenderstalk beeblossom
  
Synonym: ''Guara filipes'' Spach
 
 
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Synonyms: ''Gaura filipes'' Spach; ''Gaura filipes'' var. ''filipes''; ''Gaura filipes'' var. ''major'' Torrey & A. Gray; ''Gaura michauxii'' Spach
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This species has been observed to flower and fruit from August to October (FSU Herbarium).
 
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This species has been found in habitat that is often maintained by fire (FSU Herbarium).
 
This species has been found in habitat that is often maintained by fire (FSU Herbarium).
 
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Revision as of 11:54, 23 March 2016

Oenothera filipes
Oeno Gaura fili2.jpg
Photo by John R. Gwaltney, Southeastern Flora.com
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants
Class: Magnoliopsida – Dicotyledons
Order: Myrtales
Family: Onagraceae
Genus: Oenothera
Species: O. filipes
Binomial name
Oenothera filipes
(Spach) W.L. Wagner & Hoch
GAUR FILI dist.jpg
Natural range of Oenothera filipes from USDA NRCS Plants Database.

Common name: slenderstalk beeblossom

Taxonomic notes

Synonyms: Gaura filipes Spach; Gaura filipes var. filipes; Gaura filipes var. major Torrey & A. Gray; Gaura michauxii Spach

Description

Oenothera filipes is a perennial herbaceous species.

"Usually coarse, branched annuals or perennials. Leaves mostly alternate. Inflorescence terminal, spike-like, with or without axillary branches from upper leaves or bracts. Petals white to pink; stigmas 3-4 lobed. Fruit woody, indehiscent." - Radford et al 1964

"Plant to 1.5 m tall, stems pubescent. Leaves linear, elliptic or narrowly lanceolate, to 6 cm long and 6 mm wide, pubescent, glabrous, or puberulent, acute, coarsely toothed to undulate, attenuate; sessile or subsessile. Inflorescence diffusely branched, the branches uncinulate. Spelas and petals 4-7 mm long; anthers 1.6-2.5 mm long styles exerted 5-7 mm. fruits acutely 4-angled, ovoid, 3.5-4 mm long, 3-3.5 mm broad, minutely uncinulate to almost glabrous; pedicels 2-3 mm long, uncinulate." - Radford et al 1964

Distribution

Ecology

Habitat

O. filipes occurs in dry or well drained sandy soils and sandy loam (FSU Herbarium). It seems to be most common in areas that receive full sun or are only partly shaded (FSU Herbarium). It can be found in longleaf pine flatwoods or sandhills, scrub oak barrens, pine-oak woodlands, and limestone glades (FSU Herbarium). However, it can also appear in areas of disturbed habitat, including roadsides and common use recreational areas (FSU Herbarium). Associated species include Pinus palutris, Solidago, Gaillardia, Polianthes, Berchemia, Dichromema, Setaria, Hedyotis, Schoenus nigricans, Muhlenbergia carpillaris, and Quercus laevis (FSU Herbarium).

Phenology

This species has been observed to flower and fruit from August to October (FSU Herbarium).

Fire ecology

This species has been found in habitat that is often maintained by fire (FSU Herbarium).

Conservation and Management

Cultivation and restoration

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References and notes

Florida State University Robert K. Godfrey Herbarium database. URL: http://herbarium.bio.fsu.edu. Last accessed: June 2014. Collectors: Loran C. Anderson, Gary R. Knight, John B. Nelson, Robert K. Godfrey, E. Tyson, R. D. Houk. Ann F. Johnson, Wilson Baker, R. Komarek, MacClendons, and G. Wilder. States and Counties: Florida: Bay, Calhoun, Gadsden, Jackson, Leon, Liberty, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa, Wakulla, and Walton. Georgia: Thomas.

Radford, Albert E., Harry E. Ahles, and C. Ritchie Bell. Manual of the Vascular Flora of the Carolinas. 1964, 1968. The University of North Carolina Press. 754-5. Print.