| Scientific Name: | Calceolaria (Herbeohybrida Group) |
| Common Name: | pocketbook plant, pouch flower, lady's slipper |
| Family Name: | Calceolariaceae |
| Origin: | Central America, Garden origin, South America |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 10: (-1 to 4 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Annual (grown as), Flowering pot plant |
| Mature Size: | 0.4 - 0.7m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Spreading |
| Form: | Creeping / Mat-like |
| Texture: | Fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Container planting, Ground cover |
| Exposure: | Part sun/part shade, Filtered shade |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Opposite, Soft flexible, Heavily veined, Pinnate venation, Pubescent, Obovate, Dentate, Undulate (wavy) |
| Flowers: | Cyme, Orange, Yellow, Red, Dark-red, Can flower any month |
| Fruit: | Capsule, Brown, Jul-Aug |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves opposite, most blades ovate, 8-11cm long x 6-8cm wide, rugose, margins toothed, pubescent; floret petals fused with lower ones pouch-like, very showy. | |