Kniphofia pauciflora
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Kniphofia pauciflora• Click here to visit our Main Plant List page for current availability of this plant
• common names: dwarf torch lily, red-hot poker
• flowering season: early summer
• height: flower stems to 1½ feet, slightly lower foliage
• Light requirements: full sun, half a day of sun will do
• Soil requirements: average to rich and well drained
• Water requirments: will survive in a dry landscape although it will grow better and flower more profusely with a weekly deep watering during summer
• Growth habit: a slowly widening clump of grass-like leaves
• How to propagate: divide in spring or early summer
• Leaf type: narrow and grassy
• Ways to use it: grows well with other flowering perennials in a sunny garden
• Special characteristics: its upright, spiky flowers have lots of character and are a focal point among other flowering plants, especially contrasting nicely with mounding and cushion shaped perennials
• Other points of interests: its flowerheads are small and much daintier than other Kniphofias
The species name of this torch lily, pauciflora refers to the few number of florets that fill its flowerhead. In other words, there being a paucity of the light yellow florets. Everything about the plant is small scale. You won't have to be concerned with it growing too big and possibly overwhelming its garden neighbors. The color of the flowers is a clear, lemon yellow. To USDA Zone 7.