Cuphea cyaneaCuphea is a genus of about 260 species of annual and perennial flowering plants native to warm temperate to tropical regions of the Americas. The species range from low-growing herbs to semi-woody shrubs up to 2 m tall.
C. ignea 'David Verity' and C. micropetalia are favorite hummingbird plants.
Some species of Cuphea are used to produce cuphea oil, of interest as sources of medium-chain triglycerides. Early attempts at commercial production have focused on an interspecific hybrid population derived from C.lanceolata and C. viscosissima.
Some species of Cuphea are used to produce cuphea oil, of interest as sources of medium-chain triglycerides. Early attempts at commercial production have focused on an interspecific hybrid population derived from C.lanceolata and C. viscosissima.
Botanist Shirley A. Graham, currently of the Missouri Botanical Garden, has published widely on the genus. Among Graham's Cuphea contributions are two volumes in the series Systematic Botany Monographs.
Here those Selected species:
- Cuphea cyanea
- Cuphea carthagenensis
- Cuphea epilobiifolia
- Cuphea hookeriana
- Cuphea hyssopifolia (‘Mexican Falsa Heather’)
- Cuphea jorullensis
- Cuphea koehneana
- Cuphea laminuligera
- Cuphea lanceolata
- Cuphea llavea (“Bat-faced cuphea”)
- Cuphea lutea
- Cuphea micropetala (“Cigar Plant”)
- Cuphea painteri
- Cuphea procumbens
- Cuphea stigulosa
- Cuphea viscosissima
- Cuphea writghtii
Cuphea hyssopifolia
Cuphea hyssopifolia, also known as False or Mexican Heather, is a small shrub which is native to Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras. It grows to about 60 cm high and 90 cm wide and has purple, lavender or white colored flowers and fine foliage.
