As nouns the difference between laura and gaura
is that
laura is a number of hermitages or cells in the same neighborhood occupied by anchorites who were under the same superior while
gaura is any of the genus {{taxlink|Gaura|genus|pedia=1}} of flowering plants in the family Onagraceae, including many pedia=1s.
As a proper noun Laura
is {{given name|female|from=Latin}}.