The Main Plant entry for Torch Lilies (Kniphofia)

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General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit:	Herb/Forb
Life cycle:	Perennial
Sun Requirements:	Full Sun to Partial Shade
Flowers:	Showy
Underground structures:	Rhizome
Uses:	Cut Flower Will Naturalize
Wildlife Attractant:	Bees Birds Butterflies Hummingbirds
Resistances:	Deer Resistant
Propagation: Seeds:	Sow in situ Can handle transplanting Other info: Seeds take a long time to reach flowering stage.
Propagation: Other methods:	Division
Containers:	Suitable in 3 gallon or larger

Common names

Red Hot Poker
Tritoma
Torch Lily

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Location: Historic City Cemetery, Sacramento CA.
Date: 2014-12-05
Torch Lilies (Kniphofia)

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Location: Denver Botanical Garden
Date: 2021-07-07

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Location: Zone 5b, Chicago suburbs
Date: June 27, 2021

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Location: my garden in Dawsonville, GA (zone 7b north Geogia mountains)
Date: 2021-07-12

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Location: My Cincinnati Ohio garden
Date: 2015-06-08
Third year in my garden

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Location: Botanical Gardens of the State of Georgia...Athens, Ga
Date: 2018-04-27
Red Hot Poker 010

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Location: my garden in Dawsonville, GA (zone 7b north Geogia mountains)
Date: 2021-07-12
large clump from 5 bulbs planted 6 years ago

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Date: c. 1927
photo from the 1927 catalog, John Scheepers, New York City, NY

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Location: Coastal San Diego County
Date: 2018-04-20

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Location: Woodbridge , Va
Date: 2016-05-30

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Location: Oxfordshire, England
Date: 2016-04-22

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Location: by swingset
Date: 2021-05-23
main bloom and keiki at bottom

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Location: by swingset
Date: 2021-05-23
close up of keiki

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Date: 2012-09-06
A knockout border at Alnwick Garden

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Location: Pacific Northwest, zone 8
Date: Jul 1, 2012

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Location: Sanetti Plateau
Photo courtesy of: Rod Waddington

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Location: Altamont, Illinois
Date: 8-4-07

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Location: Central Kansas (Zone 6b)
Date: 2016-05-30

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Location: Jardin botanique de Montréal
Date: 2014-07-06

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Location: Woodbridge , Va
Date: 09-05-16
leaves and emerging buds

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Location: My garden, Gent, Belgium
Date: 2014-07-06

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Location: Vander Veer Botanical Gardens - Davenport, Iowa
Date: 2011-07-02

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Location: All pictures taken in/on my gardens/greenhouse/property
Date: 2019-09-20

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Posted by Marilyn (Kentucky - Zone 6a) on May 23, 2013 11:38 PM concerning plant:

"Kniphofia, also called tritoma, red hot poker, torch lily, knofflers or poker plant, is a genus of flowering plants in the family Xanthorrhoeaceae, subfamily Asphodeloideae, that includes 70 or more species native to Africa. Herbaceous species and hybrids have narrow, grass-like leaves 4–39 inch long, while perennial species have broader, strap-shaped foliage up to 5 feet long. All plants produce spikes of upright, brightly colored flowers well above the foliage, in shades of red, orange and yellow, often bicoloured. The flowers produce copious nectar while blooming and are attractive to bees. In the New World they may attract sap-suckers such as hummingbirds and New World orioles.

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

Taken from wikipedia's page at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K...

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Plant Events from our members
dragonfetti	On January 28, 2015	Seeds sown Planted under office window.
dragonfetti	On January 23, 2015	Obtained plant Two bare root plants from BL.
dragonfetti	On January 15, 2013	Obtained plant January 15, 2013: Obtained plant ( (from http://www.edeweissperennials.... as a tuber. Have three different varieties but have lost their tags. One orange and yellow did very well has has become quite large, and had two blooms. The other has not bloomed. 11-22-2014)
GoCart	On June 1, 2018	Plant Ended (Removed, Died, Discarded, etc) Bulbs did not sprout. Removed.
GoCart	On March 11, 2018	Transplanted Costco Bulb-to-Blooms "bulbs" from bag to ground

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