Odontonema strictum Check with George serotina carries the same upright

serotina carries the same upright white bottlebrush flowers as the bottlebrush buckeye

The name records that middle ground: intermedia

Native to the southeastern United States

Standing water is no obstacle

and fall brings warm color along with large

Odontonema strictum Check with George serotina carries the same uprightFew plants light a shaded corner the way firespike does. Odontonema strictum raises erect spikes of slender, tubular, scarlet flowers to a foot long from late summer into winter, each spike a torch held above dark, glossy, quilted foliage. The genus name pairs the Greek odous, a tooth, with nema, a thread, for the toothed filaments inside the bloom, and the plant answers to a tangle of common names, firespike, cardinal's guard, and firestick among