| Scientific Name: | Cuphea x purpurea |
| Common Name: | firecracker, bat-faced cuphea |
| Family Name: | Lythraceae |
| Origin: | Garden origin |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 11: (above 4 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Annual (grown as) |
| Mature Size: | 0.2 - 0.4m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Upright |
| Form: | Mounded, Oval - vertical |
| Texture: | Medium |
| Landscape Uses: | Bedding plant, Container planting, Hanging basket, Small garden/space, Summer interest |
| Exposure: | Full sun |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Opposite, Soft flexible, Pinnate venation, Glandular hairs, Lanceolate, Obovate, Ovate, Entire |
| Flowers: | Flowers clustered, Pink, Red, Jul-Aug |
| Fruit: | Capsule, Aborted (hybrids) or absent, Brown, Sep-Oct |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves opposite, ovate-lanceolate, most 3-5cm long x 1.5-2.5cm wide, pubescent, dark green; flowers tubular, 2-3cm long, calyx rose-red to pink-violet, petals red, 2-6 (when paired in some cultivars, the flowers may appear like a bat face). | |