False heather
Cuphea hyssopifolia Kunth
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 41 cm
- wide
- 66 cm
Lythraceae
Also called Mexican Heather
Formerly Cuphea rivularis, Cuphea sunubana, Parsonsia hyssopifolia
When it flowers
Flowers all year in the tropics.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- SubshrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Seasonally dry tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Mexico to C. AmericaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from RHS and NC State Extension, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: RHS full, part; NC State Extension full
- Height
- 30 cm to 51 cmRead from RHS and NC State Extension, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: RHS 0.1–0.5 m; NC State Extension 1–2 ft
- Spread
- 51 cm to 81 cmRead from RHS and NC State Extension, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: RHS 0.5–1 m; NC State Extension 9–32 in
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from RHS and NC State Extension, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Flowers
- White, pink, purpleRead from RHS and NC State Extension, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Coldest it survives
- -2.8 °C (USDA zone 9b)Read from RHS and NC State Extension, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: RHS 1 °C; NC State Extension -6.7 °C
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- Falso brezo mexicano, Mirto, Diosme
- Chinese
- 雪茄花, 臺灣雪茄花, 細葉萼距花
- Chinese (China)
- 细叶萼距花, 细叶雪茄花
- Japanese
- メキシコハナヤナギ
- Polish
- Kufea hyzopolistna
- Russian
- Куфея иссополистная
- Indonesian
- Taiwan Beauty
- Danish
- småbladet cuphea
- Czech
- Hlazenec yzopolistý
- Portuguese
- Falsa-erica, Rute
- Hebrew
- גבנון בן אזוב, קופיאה ננסית
- Finnish
- sinitulitorvi
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- RHS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-24, CC BY 2.5
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- 3D model: Cuphea hyssopifolia (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.