Dicliptera suberecta Summer Water Tolerant growing to about a foot

growing to about a foot high and wide with 2 foot spikes of lavender-blue flowers

These are vigorous growers

the leaves grow farther apart and the plants become more open

As the name might suggest

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Dicliptera suberecta Summer Water Tolerant growing to about a footHummingbird magnet! A stunning, perennial, subshrub from Uruguay, to 18 24" wide and tall, with slender, velvety, gray foliage on erect or arching stems, lovely by itself, AND all summer into autumn, hummingbird food, two lipped, rusty reddish orange, tubular flowers in upright clusters. To see is to covet. Best in sun with summer water but tolerates some shade and occasional periods of drought. Cold hardy in USDA zones 7 11. URUGUAYAN FIRECRACKER