| Scientific Name: | Cuphea hyssopifolia (incl. hybrid cvs.) |
| Common Name: | Mexican heather |
| Family Name: | Lythraceae |
| Origin: | Central America, Mexico |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 9: (-7 to -1 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Annual, Flowering pot plant |
| Mature Size: | 0.2 - 0.4m x 0.6 - 1.0m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Arching, Spreading |
| Form: | Creeping / Mat-like, Oval - horizontal |
| Texture: | Fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Bedding plant, Container planting, Group or mass planting, Mixed shrub border, Perennial border, Rock garden |
| Exposure: | Full sun, Part sun/part shade |
| Soil or Media: | Humus rich, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Opposite, Leathery, Pinnate venation, Pubescent, Elliptic, Lanceolate, Crenate, Entire |
| Flowers: | Flowers solitary, White, Violet, Pink, Jun-Jul-Aug-Sep |
| Fruit: | Capsule, Brown, Oct-Nov |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Low growing bushy shrub; leaves opposite, mostly elliptic, up to 2.5cm long x 7mm wide, petioles very short; flowers all summer into autumn. | |