''Gaura neomexicana'' is a species of flowering plant in the evening primrose family known by the common name New Mexico beeblossom. It is native to the west central United States. There are two subspecies of this species. One, the rare Colorado butterfly plant (ssp. ''coloradensis''), is a federally listed threatened species of the United States.USFWS
Threatened status for the Colorado Butterfly Plant (''Gaura neomexicana'' ssp. ''coloradensis'') from southeastern Wyoming, northcentral Colorado, and extreme western Nebraska.
''Federal Register'' October 18, 2000. It grows along the border between

Wyoming Wyoming () is a U.S. state, state in the Mountain states, Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. It is bordered by Montana to the north and northwest, South Dakota and Nebraska to the east, Idaho to the west, Utah to the south ...

and

Colorado Colorado (, other variants) is a state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. It encompasses most of the Southern Rocky Mountains, as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of t ...

and its distribution extends just into

Nebraska Nebraska () is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. It is bordered by South Dakota to the north; Iowa to the east and Missouri to the southeast, both across the Missouri River; Kansas to the south; Colorado to the southwe ...

. It grows in moist soils in meadows near streams in the western

Great Plains The Great Plains (french: Grandes Plaines), sometimes simply "the Plains", is a broad expanse of flatland in North America. It is located west of the Mississippi River and east of the Rocky Mountains, much of it covered in prairie, steppe, an ...

.''G. neomexicana'' ssp. ''coloradensis'' State Species Abstract.
Wyoming Natural Diversity Database. It has probably always been rare, localized, and

endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsew ...

to a specific type of habitat,Fertig, W
Status Review of the Colorado Butterfly Plant.
Wyoming Natural Diversity Database, January 13, 2000. but it has declined due to the loss and degradation of its habitat.''G. neomexicana'' ssp. ''coloradensis''.
Center for Plant Conservation.

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