| Scientific Name: | Cuphea ignea (incl. hybrid cvs.) |
| Common Name: | firecracker plant, cigar flower |
| Family Name: | Lythraceae |
| Origin: | Caribbean Island, Mexico |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 10: (-1 to 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: | Dense |
| Form: | Round |
| Texture: | Medium - fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Attract birds, Attract butterflies, Bedding plant, Container planting, Hanging basket, Indoor plant |
| Exposure: | Full sun, Part sun/part shade |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Opposite, Soft flexible, Pinnate venation, Glabrous, Lanceolate, Entire |
| Flowers: | Flowers clustered, Orange, Red, Jun-Jul-Aug-Sep-Oct |
| Fruit: | Capsule, Brown, Oct-Nov |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves opposite, lanceolate, most blades reach 2-3cm long x 1-2cm wide; flowers solitary or 2-3 per axil, tubular, 2-3cm long, perianth bright red to orange with white to purple-black ends, pedicels 1-3cm long. | |