Epilobium Garrettii Orange Carpet

A plant select introduction.

Epilobium garrettii orange carpet.

Orange carpet is a vigorous perennial groundcover that blooms in mid to late summer with a profusion fo bright orange trumpet shaped flowers. Small fuzzy leaves with terminal clusters of orange scarlet flowers. Garrettii orange carpet to me which is also probably the most available common likely variety to find around here too expansive low mats of profuse bloom right now. It forms a low groundcover of fuzzy thin green leaves.

Zauschneria garettii orange carpet zauschneria garettii orange carpet zauschneria garettii orange carpet hardy fuchsia. Orange scarlet flowers mid late summer bloom low growing mats with trailing. Plant database entry for california fuchsia epilobium canum subsp. 2001 plant select winner 4 6 tall x 15 18 wide.

Flowers are attractive to hummingbirds and butterflies. Location map for epilobium canum ssp. Browse pictures and read growth cultivation information about epilobium california fuchsia hummingbird trumpet epilobium canum subsp. Map help more plant locations.

Gray foliage and green foliage. Garrett s firechalice 10 map locations found click a marker pin or a green plant dot for details. It is definitely an epilobium of some kind. Garrettii pwwg01s orange carpet california fuchsia.

Zauschneria hummingbird trumpet or fire chalice is a showy native plant that will light up the garden in mid summer to fall with a profusion of coral or orange flowers that last for many weeks. California fuchsias have colors from white pink to orange and red. Garrettii orange carpet with 9 images 3 comments and 27 data details. Spreading with underground stems this beauty is perfect for.

The fire chalice plants nectar rich flowers are highly attractive to hummingbirds. Too difficult to determine exactly which looks like e. Orange carpet hummingbird trumpet is a rapidly spreading variety of hardy fuchsia. This forms a low growing mat of small green leaves bearing a riot of small scarlet orange trumpet blooms from mid summer into the autumn.

We still prefer the older names that used zauschneria and think that with time zauschneria may come back. For the moment most them have been lumped together as epilobium canum.