San Luis Obispo Botanical Garden Kniphofia uvaria

Kniphofia uvaria
'Orange Flame'

Family: Liliaceae
Common Name: Red Hot Poker

It is native to South Africa (Southwestern Cape)
This genus includes about seventy species of evergreen or deciduous rhizomatic perennials.
This species has many cultivars ranging in color from white to bright orange-red. It is a perennial with lax linear, keeled, finely toothed, coarse leaves up to 24 inches long.

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