flame flower

Noun

• plant with fleshy roots and erect stems with narrow succulent leaves and one reddish-orange flower in each upper leaf axil; southwestern United States; Indians once cooked the fleshy roots

• a plant of the genus Kniphofia having long grasslike leaves and tall scapes of red or yellow drooping flowers

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  flame-flower , flameflower , Talinum aurantiacum , kniphofia , tritoma