Hardiness zones
Sunset 5-24
USDA 7 (freezes to ground each year), 8 (deciduous), 9 (semi-evergreen) - 11

Landscape Use: Use in oasis and xeric landscape gardens as a border accent, hummingbirds.

Form & Character: Upright and not rounded, free and easy plant, informal, warm.

Growth Habit: In Phoenix, partially deciduous to evergreen perennial shrub depending on winter cold, upright and stiff to somewhat sprawling, 3 to 5' in height with similar spread.

Foliage/Texture: Lanceolate, smooth, glaborous, light green, nearly sessile to 3" long, brittle stems, medium fine texture

Flowers & Fruits: Many, showy reddish orange tubular flowers; fruit an inconspicuous brown capsule with black seeds.

Seasonal Color: Blooms during much of warm growing season, most heavily in spring and late summer/early autumn.

Temperature: Tolerant

Light: Full to partial sun

Soil: Tolerant of some soil alkalinity

Watering: Infrequent bu regular irrigations in desert areas is best.

Pruning: Severe renewal pruning of larger plants every few years, otherwise do not shear!!

Propagation: Mostly by cutting, some seed

Disease and pests: None

Additional comments: Texas firecracker is a serviceable shrub for oasis and xeric landscape gardens. Older plants have shredding bark. The species name of this plant is for Charles Wright (1811-1885), world-wide botanical collector but mainly in Texas, Cuba and his native Connecticut.