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Flower
Firespike
Odontonema tubaeforme
Special care: tender perennial in North Texas — mulch well; it dies back in winter and returns in warm years. Red spikes for hummingbirds in fall shade.
Recommended uses
- Shade beds
- Pollinator gardens
- Plant type
- Perennial flower
- Annual / perennial
- Perennial
- Evergreen / deciduous
- Deciduous
- Sun
- Part shade
- Shade tolerance
- High
- Water needs
- Medium
- Bloom season
- Fall
- Bloom color
- Red
- Mature height
- 3–5 ft
- Mature width
- 2–3 ft
- Maintenance
- Low
- Texas heat tolerance
- Medium
- Drought tolerance
- Medium