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KNIPHOFIA
Commonly known as Red hot poker, Torch lily, Tritoma
Expanding range of showy pokers for growing in nature-friendly clumps.
Many hybrids have been toned down over time from the original "red hot pokers" and now come in shades of red, orange, yellow, and greenish white.
Genus of about 70 species of evergreen or semi-evergreen rhizomatous perennials from mountainous or upland areas, often in moist places in rough grass or along streamsides in southern and tropical Africa, Madagascar and Arabia.
Buy Varieties of KNIPHOFIA
KNIPHOFIA 'Alcazar'
garnet red
KNIPHOFIA 'Bees Lemon'
dense narrow yellow flowers from green buds. Easy to grow
KNIPHOFIA 'Ice Queen'
a very nearly white cultivar. Pale cream flowers from green buds. Ages to white
KNIPHOFIA 'John Benary'
coral-red flowers
KNIPHOFIA 'Little Maid'
pale lemon flower spike about 18 inches tall
KNIPHOFIA 'Nancy's Red'
a short growing variety less than 2 feet tall with dusky deep coral-red flowers
KNIPHOFIA northiae
red buds and pale-yellow flowers. Not clump forming
KNIPHOFIA 'Poco Orange'
dwarf variety with deep orange flowers
KNIPHOFIA rooperi
orange-red spherical flowers becoming orange-yellow
KNIPHOFIA 'Royal Castle'
red/yellow flower spike
KNIPHOFIA 'Royal Standard'
red buds opening to yellow
KNIPHOFIA rufa 'Rasta'
tall growing with long greenish-yellow spikes initially light orange as the flowers open. An unusual colour combination
KNIPHOFIA 'Tawny King'
dark bronze stems and tubular cream flowers above evergreen strap-like leaves
KNIPHOFIA 'Timothy'
cream flushed carmine