Full to morning sun or partial shade. A fine-textured, sagelike perennial with showy cascades of slender, bell-shaped red flowers. (Yellowish cultivars are available.) Blooms appear from spring through first frost. The horsetail in the Latin name references the plant’s superficial resemblance to horse-tail fern. In South Texas, Russelia will probably freeze back in winter unless protected. It attracts hummingbirds and butterflies.
Occasional grooming; may be cut back after freezing weather.
Slender, arching branches of glowing red tube flowers.
