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How to Grow
Water
Medium
Water moderately, allowing the top 3cm to dry out between watering.
Sunlight
Partial Sun - Full Sun
~
3-6 hours of direct sun per day
Characteristics
Bloom Time
Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Aug, Dec
Plant Type
Shrubs, Annual, Houseplant, Shrub, Shrub up to 1.5 m high with numerous lax whorled branches sometimes arching and rooting, ribbed, and Equisetum-like
Lifespan
Annual, Perennial
Flower
Flowers freely from late spring to frost. Will continue to flower into winter if taken indoors and treated as a houseplant. Bright red flowers in drooping terminal cymes., Flowers in 1–2(–3)flowered fascicles and slender peduncles
Fruit
broadly ovoid, beaked by persistent style, Capsule broadly ovoid, beaked by persistent style.
Benefits
Attracts
Butterflies
Hummingbirds
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Taxonomy
Order
Scrophulariales
Family
Scrophulariaceae
Genus
Russelia
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