Standing-cypress
Ipomopsis rubra (L.) Wherry
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Little
- tall
- 1.2 m
- wide
- 46 cm
Polemoniaceae
Formerly Cantua coronopifolia, Cantua elegans, Cantua floridana, Cantua pinnatifida, and 12 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- BiennialKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- C. & E. U.S.A.Kew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 61 cm to 1.8 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 30 cm to 61 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Little: takes droughtRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Flowers
- RedRead from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (1)
- Chinese
- 红花吉莉, 红莉花
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, Public domain
- 3D model: Ipomopsis rubra (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.