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Photo: Alejandro Bayer Tamayo from Armenia, Colombia · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Shrub
Firebush
Hamelia patens
Tubular orange-red flowers all summer. In North Texas it dies back in winter and returns from the roots — mulch well.
Recommended uses
- Pollinator gardens
- Borders
- Plant type
- Flowering shrub
- Evergreen / deciduous
- Deciduous
- Sun
- Full sun to part shade
- Shade tolerance
- Moderate
- Water needs
- Low
- Bloom season
- Summer, Fall
- Bloom color
- Red, Orange
- Mature height
- 3–5 ft
- Mature width
- 3–4 ft
- Maintenance
- Low
- Texas heat tolerance
- High
- Drought tolerance
- High