USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 7a-11  Find Your Zone

Plant Type:  Perennial 

Flower Color:  Orange

Flower Size: 2-3" in clusters

Flowering Period:  June to Frost!

Flower Type:  Tubular, Trumpet

Fragrant Flowers:  No

Foliage Color:  Smoke Grey 

Fragrant Foliage:  No

Berries:  No

Berry Color:  No

Attracts:  Butterflies, Hummingbirds, Visual Attention

Resistances:  Deer, Disease, Drought, Dry Soil, Heat, Humidity, Insect, Rabbit

The Hummingbird Plant, also known as the Uruguayan Firecracker Plant, is a hummingbird's dream come true! If attracting hummingbirds is one of your goals Dicliptera suberecta is a must for your garden. 

Dicliptera suberecta is one of the few perennials from Uruguay that we grow and offer...makes you wonder what else might be there. This heat and drought tolerant, cold hardy perennial plant produces numerous clusters of electric orange, upright facing, tubular flowers throughout the warm season that are irresistible to hummingbirds. Equally attractive in the garden are the felty, silver-grey leaves that cover the 2 foot tall by 3 foot wide mound throughout the growing season.

The Hummingbird Plant is the perfect addition to a hummingbird or nectar garden, mixed with other hummingbird attracting plants such as Salvia, Hardy Lantana and Butterfly Bush. It also makes a nice accent plant in home foundation plantings and perennial or rock gardens, or as a border plant along a sunny path or walkway. Perfect for pots, planters and other containers, which is nice for those of you north of USDA Zone 7a who can overwinter it indoors or in a greenhouse.

Suggested Spacing:  24 inches apart for mass plantings or solid border; 60 inches or more for space between plants

Note:  For our customers who live and garden north of USDA Plant Hardiness Zone 7a, where the Hummingbird Plant is not reliably winter hardy outdoors, you can enjoy growing it in containers that can be moved indoors during winter and placed back outside when temperatures warm up in spring.

The Hummingbird Plant is very easy to grow. It's not too picky about soil type but prefers a moist but well-drained soil. What it doesn't like is a constantly soggy or wet soil, which can cause problems with the roots. It grows more dense and flowers more in full to mostly sun, however, will tolerate a fair amount of shade or filtered sun. We suggest at least 5 hours or more of direct sunlight for best flowering. 

Note:  In our gardens here in Zone 8 of north-central Georgia, we've seen the Hummingbird Plant survive temperatures as low as 3 degrees F. In zones 9 and 10 the plant will be evergreen. In zones 7 and 8 it may die back during colder winters to then reemerge strong in spring. If it dies back you can snip off the dead foliage and apply a light coat of mulch.