Dichelostemma ida-maia
ida-maia > |
If this plant info box on watering; zones; height; etc. is mostly empty you can click on the edit tab and fill in the blanks!
Read about Dichelostemma ida-maia in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
|
---|
Brevoortia ida-maia, Wood (B. coccinea, Wats. Brodiaea coccinea, Gray). Floral. Fire-cracker. Lvs. slender, grassy: scapes slender, 1-3 ft. high, with 3-6 pendulous tubular-saccate fls. 1-2 in. long, which are brilliant crimson-red, tipped with pea-green. N. Calif, to Ore. in wooded foothills. B.M. 5857. G.C. III. 20:687. Gn. 46, p. 503.—The fls. are very lasting and beautiful. Half-hardy. Needs partial shade and a deep, loose soil, thoroughly drained, and with some leaf-mold. Conn the sue of a nutmeg.
|