flame flower
Noun
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A plant of the genus Kniphofia having long grasslike leaves and tall scapes of red or yellow drooping flowers (synset 112458018)
is a 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 pestssubtypes: kniphofia uvaria, poker plant - clump-forming plant of South Africa with spikes of scarlet flowersbelongs to: genus kniphofia - genus of showy clump-forming African herbs with grasslike leaves; sometimes placed in family Aloeaceae
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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 (synset 111883304)is a type of: wild flower, wildflower - wild or uncultivated flowering plantsubtypes:- narrow-leaved flame flower, talinum augustissimum - similar to Talinum aurantiacum but with narrower leaves and yellow-orange flowers; southwestern United States
- pigmy talinum, talinum brevifolium - low plant with crowded narrow succulent leaves and fairly large deep pink axillary flowers that seem to sit on the ground; southwestern United States
- rock pink, talinum calycinum - pink-flowered perennial of rocky regions of western United States
- jewels-of-opar, talinum paniculatum - erect plant with tuberous roots and terminal panicles of red to yellow flowers; southwestern North America to Central America; widely introduced elsewhere
- spiny talinum, talinum spinescens - low cushion-forming plant with rose to crimson-magenta flowers and leaf midribs that persist as spines when the leaves die; southwestern United States
belongs to: genus talinum, talinum - genus of mainly American more-or-less succulent herbs
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