Scientific Name: Calceolaria integrifolia
Common Name: pouch flower
Family Name: Calceolariaceae
Origin: Mexico
Hardiness Zone: Zone 11: (above 4 °C)
Plant Type: Annual (grown as), Flowering pot plant
Mature Size: 0.2 - 0.4m x 0.1 - 0.3m (height x width)
Habit: Upright
Form: Mounded
Texture: Fine
Landscape Uses: Bedding plant, Container planting, Group or mass planting, Indoor plant, Summer interest
Exposure: Full sun, Part sun/part shade
Soil or Media: Well-drained
Leaves: Simple, Opposite, Sessile, Soft flexible, Heavily veined, Rugose, Pubescent, Ovate, Serrate
Flowers: Cyme, Orange, Yellow, Red, Jun-Jul-Aug-Sep
Fruit: Capsule, Brown, Sep-Oct
Key ID Features:
Leaves opposite, sessile, very rugose, most blades ovate to elliptic, 5-8cm long x 3-4cm wide, margins scalloped; floret petals fused with lower ones pouch-like, very showy, commonly bight yellow (also orange - red cvs.), ~1cm wide.