Today’s Shot 149

Kniphofia

Kniphofia is also known as tritoma, red hot poker, torch lily, knofflers, or poker plant. From the genus of flowering plants called Asphodelaceae, it is an easily grown herbaceous perennial that is a native of Africa. It is said to be deer, rabbit and drought tolerant and attracts hummingbirds and butterflies. It makes a wonderful show, creating vibrant vertical lines, but is toxic if eaten.


Cee’s Flower of the Day – FOTD


20 Comments

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out /  Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out /  Change )

Connecting to %s