flameflower

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: flameflower

1	n	plant with fleshy roots and erect stems with narrow succulent leaves and one reddish-orange flower in each upper leaf axil; southwestern United States; Indians once cooked the fleshy roots
2	n	a plant of the genus Kniphofia having long grasslike leaves and tall scapes of red or yellow drooping flowers

FULL DEFINITIONS OF: flameflower

Types:: show 5 types...; hide 5 types...; Talinum augustissimum, narrow-leaved flame flower
similar to Talinum aurantiacum but with narrower leaves and yellow-orange flowers; southwestern United States; Talinum brevifolium, pigmy talinum
low plant with crowded narrow succulent leaves and fairly large deep pink axillary flowers that seem to sit on the ground; southwestern United States; Talinum calycinum, rock pink
pink-flowered perennial of rocky regions of western United States; Talinum paniculatum, jewels-of-opar
erect plant with tuberous roots and terminal panicles of red to yellow flowers; southwestern North America to Central America; widely introduced elsewhere; Talinum spinescens, spiny talinum
low cushion-forming plant with rose to crimson-magenta flowers and leaf midribs that persist as spines when the leaves die; southwestern United States

Types:: Kniphofia uvaria, poker plant
clump-forming plant of South Africa with spikes of scarlet flowers; Kniphofia praecox, red-hot poker
widely cultivated hybrid poker plant

Type of:: herb, herbaceous plant
a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests

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