Kniphofia Flamenco Red Hot Poker

The genus Kniphofia (Red Hot Poker) is a group of South African native perennials that range from 10in dwarfs to 7ft giants. We have spent quite a bit of time evaluating kniphofia species and cultivars for their garden performance and hope you enjoy our ever-expanding offerings. Most red hot pokers are quite easy to grow in bright sun and good garden soil. Kniphofia Red Hot Poker Uvaria Flamenco, Tall torch-like flower spikes in shade of fire red and flame yellow jet out from the deep green grass foliage. The brightly colored tubular flowers are a magnet for hummingbirds and butterflies as well as all manner of pollinators.

Red hot pokers
Fiery colored Kniphofia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Plantae
Clade:Tracheophytes
Clade:Angiosperms
Clade:Monocots
Order:Asparagales
Family:Asphodelaceae
Subfamily:Asphodeloideae
Genus:Kniphofia
Moench
Synonyms[1]
  • TritomaKer Gawl.
  • TrioclesSalisb.
  • TritomantheLink
  • TritomiumLink
  • Rudolpho-roemeriaSteud. ex Hochst.
  • TriclissaSalisb.
  • NotosceptrumBenth.

Kniphofia/nɪpˈhoʊfiə/,[2] also called tritoma, red hot poker, torch lily, knofflers[citation needed] or poker plant, is a genus of perennialflowering plants in the familyAsphodelaceae, first described as a genus in 1794.[3] It is native to Africa.

Description[edit]

Herbaceous species and hybrids have narrow, grass-like leaves 10–100 cm (4–39 in) long, while evergreen species have broader, strap-shaped foliage up to 1.5 m (5 ft) long. All plants produce spikes of upright, brightly coloured flowers well above the foliage, in shades of red, orange and yellow, often bicoloured.[4] The flowers produce copious nectar while blooming and are attractive to bees and sunbirds. In the New World they may attract sap-suckers such as hummingbirds and New World orioles.

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Etymology[edit]

The genus Kniphofia is named after Johann Hieronymus Kniphof, an 18th-century German physician and botanist.

Cultivation[edit]

Several species of Kniphofia are cultivated as garden plants, valued for their architectural properties. These include K. galpini, K. northiae, K. rooperi and K. thomsonii.

In addition to the species, many named cultivars of mixed or uncertain parentage have been selected for garden use. The following have gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit:-[5]

  • 'Bees' Sunset'[6] (yellow)
  • 'Brimstone Bloom'[7] (sulphur yellow)
  • 'Buttercup'[8] (clear yellow)
  • 'Nobilis'[9] (evergreen, orange and yellow)
  • 'Royal Standard'[10] (red and yellow)
  • 'Samuel's Sensation'[11] (tall herbaceous variety, scarlet flowers fading to yellow at the base)
  • 'Sunningdale Yellow'[12] (orange-yellow)
  • 'Tawny King'[13] (cream/brown)
  • 'Toffee Nosed'[14] (cream/brown)
  • 'Wrexham Buttercup'[15] (yellow)

Species[edit]

There are about 73 described species.[1][16]

  1. Kniphofia acraeaCodd - Cape Province of South Africa
  2. Kniphofia albescensCodd - Mpumalanga, KwaZulu-Natal
  3. Kniphofia albomontanaBaijnath - Lesotho, South Africa
  4. Kniphofia angustifolia(Baker) Codd - KwaZulu-Natal
  5. Kniphofia ankaratrensisBaker - Madagascar
  6. Kniphofia bauriiBaker - KwaZulu-Natal, Cape Province
  7. Kniphofia benguellensisWelw. ex Baker - Angola, Zambia
  8. Kniphofia bequaertiiDe Wild. - Zaïre, Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda
  9. Kniphofia brachystachya(Zahlbr.) Codd - Lesotho, KwaZulu-Natal, Cape Province
  10. Kniphofia brevifloraHarv. ex Baker - KwaZulu-Natal, Free State
  11. Kniphofia bruceae(Codd) Codd - Cape Province
  12. Kniphofia buchananiiBaker - KwaZulu-Natal
  13. Kniphofia caulescensBaker - Lesotho, KwaZulu-Natal, Cape Province, Free State
  14. Kniphofia citrinaBaker - Cape Province
  15. Kniphofia coddianaCufod. - KwaZulu-Natal, Cape Province
  16. Kniphofia coralligemmaE.A.Bruce - Limpopo
  17. Kniphofia crassifoliaBaker - Limpopo
  18. Kniphofia drepanophyllaBaker - KwaZulu-Natal, Cape Province
  19. Kniphofia dubiaDe Wild - Zaire, Tanzania, Zambia, Angola
  20. Kniphofia ensifoliaBaker - South Africa
  21. Kniphofia × erythraeaeFiori - Eritrea (K. pumila × K. schimperi)
  22. Kniphofia evansiiBaker - KwaZulu-Natal
  23. Kniphofia fibrosaBaker - KwaZulu-Natal, Cape Province
  24. Kniphofia flammulaCodd - KwaZulu-Natal
  25. Kniphofia fluviatilisCodd - South Africa
  26. Kniphofia foliosaHochst. - Ethiopia
  27. Kniphofia galpiniiBaker - KwaZulu-Natal, Swaziland, Mpumalanga
  28. Kniphofia goetzeiEngl. - Tanzania
  29. Kniphofia gracilisHarv. ex Baker - KwaZulu-Natal, Cape Province
  30. Kniphofia grantiiBaker - Zaïre, Tanzania, Zambia, Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, Malawi
  31. Kniphofia hildebrandtiiCufod. - Ethiopia
  32. Kniphofia hirsutaCodd - Lesotho, Cape Province
  33. Kniphofia ichopensisSchinz - KwaZulu-Natal
  34. Kniphofia insignisRendle - Ethiopia
  35. Kniphofia isoetifoliaHochst. - Ethiopia
  36. Kniphofia latifoliaCodd - KwaZulu-Natal
  37. Kniphofia laxifloraKunth - KwaZulu-Natal, Cape Province
  38. Kniphofia leucocephalaBaijnath - KwaZulu-Natal
  39. Kniphofia linearifoliaBaker - Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Swaziland, South Africa
  40. Kniphofia littoralisCodd - KwaZulu-Natal
  41. Kniphofia marungensisLisowski & Wiland - Zaïre
  42. Kniphofia mulanjeanaS.Blackmore - Mt. Mulanje in Malawi
  43. Kniphofia multifloraJ.M.Wood & M.S.Evans - Swaziland, South Africa
  44. Kniphofia nanaMarais - Zaïre
  45. Kniphofia northiaeBaker - KwaZulu-Natal, Cape Province
  46. Kniphofia nubigenaMildbr. - Sudan
  47. Kniphofia pallidifloraBaker - Massif de l' Ankaratra in Madagascar
  48. Kniphofia paludosaEngl - Elton Plateau in Tanzania
  49. Kniphofia parvifloraKunth - KwaZulu-Natal, Cape Province
  50. Kniphofia paucifloraBaker - KwaZulu-Natal
  51. Kniphofia porphyranthaBaker - Lesotho, Swaziland, South Africa
  52. Kniphofia praecoxBaker - Cape Province
  53. Kniphofia princeae (A.Berger) Marais - Zaïre, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Malawi
  54. Kniphofia pumila(Aiton) Kunth - Zaïre, Kenya, Uganda, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea
  55. Kniphofia reflexaHutch. ex Codd - Nigeria, Cameroon (endangered)[17]
  56. Kniphofia reynoldsiiCodd - Tanzania, Zambia
  57. Kniphofia rigidifoliaE.A.Bruce - Mpumalanga
  58. Kniphofia ritualisCodd - Free State, Lesotho, KwaZulu-Natal
  59. Kniphofia rooperi(T.Moore) Lem. - KwaZulu-Natal, Cape Province
  60. Kniphofia sarmentosa (Andrews) Kunth - Cape Province
  61. Kniphofia schimperiBaker - Ethiopia, Eritrea
  62. Kniphofia splendidaE.A.Bruce - Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, northeastern South Africa, Swaziland
  63. Kniphofia strictaCodd - Cape Province, Lesotho
  64. Kniphofia sumaraeDeflers - Ibb Mountains of Yemen
  65. Kniphofia tabularisMarloth - Cape Province
  66. Kniphofia thodeiBaker - Lesotho, KwaZulu-Natal
  67. Kniphofia thomsoniiBaker - Zaïre, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Ethiopia
  68. Kniphofia triangularisKunth - Lesotho, South Africa
  69. Kniphofia typhoidesCodd - Limpopo, KwaZulu-Natal, Free State, Mpumalanga
  70. Kniphofia tysoniiBaker - KwaZulu-Natal, Cape Province, Swaziland
  71. Kniphofia umbrinaCodd - Swaziland
  72. Kniphofia uvaria(L.) Oken - Cape Province; naturalized in Mexico, North Carolina, Spain, Oregon, Turkey, Washington State, St. Helena, California
  73. Kniphofia vandewegheiFischer & Ackermann - Rwanda

Gallery[edit]

  • Yellow Kniphofia

  • 'Shenandoah' Red Hot Poker

  • Kniphofia foliosa in Simien Mountains National Park, Ethiopia

  • Kniphofia along the Ohlone Greenway trail in El Cerrito, California

References[edit]

  1. ^ abKew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. ^Sunset Western Garden Book, 1995:606–607
  3. ^Stevens, P.F., Angiosperm Phylogeny Website: Asparagales: Asphodeloideae
  4. ^RHS A-Z encyclopedia of garden plants. United Kingdom: Dorling Kindersley. 2008. p. 1136. ISBN1405332964.
  5. ^'AGM Plants - Ornamental'(PDF). Royal Horticultural Society. July 2017. p. 57. Retrieved 14 March 2018.
  6. ^'RHS Plant Selector - Kniphofia 'Bees Sunset'. Royal Horticultural Society. Retrieved 20 May 2013.
  7. ^'RHS Plant Selector - Kniphofia 'Brimstone Bloom''. Royal Horticultural Society. Retrieved 20 May 2013.
  8. ^'RHS Plant Selector - Kniphofia 'Buttercup''. Royal Horticultural Society. Retrieved 20 May 2013.
  9. ^'RHS Plant Selector - Kniphofia 'Nobilis''. Royal Horticultural Society. Retrieved 20 May 2013.
  10. ^'RHS Plant Selector - Kniphofia 'Royal Standard''. Royal Horticultural Society. Retrieved 20 May 2013.
  11. ^'RHS Plant Selector - Kniphofia 'Samuel's Sensation''. Royal Horticultural Society. Retrieved 20 May 2013.
  12. ^'RHS Plant Selector - Kniphofia 'Sunningdale Yellow''. Royal Horticultural Society. Retrieved 20 May 2013.
  13. ^'RHS Plant Selector - Kniphofia 'Tawny King''. Royal Horticultural Society. Retrieved 20 May 2013.
  14. ^'RHS Plant Selector - Kniphofia 'Toffee Nosed''. Royal Horticultural Society. Retrieved 20 May 2013.
  15. ^'RHS Plant Selector - Kniphofia 'Wrexham Buttercup''. Royal Horticultural Society. Retrieved 20 May 2013.
  16. ^'A New Species of Kniphofia from Nyungwe National Park, Rwanda'. Novataxa. Retrieved 11 February 2019.
  17. ^'Kniphofia reflexa'. Redlist.org. Retrieved 2012-05-13.

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External links[edit]

Tritoma Kniphofia

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  • Dressler, S.; Schmidt, M. & Zizka, G. (2014). 'Kniphofia'. African plants – a Photo Guide. Frankfurt/Main: Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg.
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