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Anisacanthus thurberi
Thurber's desert honeysuckle is a deciduous, woody perennial shrub from the Sonoran Desert of Arizona, New Mexico and northern Mexico, grown for its orange or red tubular flowers that attract hummingbirds. It needs full sun, good drainage and very little water once established.
Anisacanthus thurberi, also known as Thurber's desert honeysuckle, buckbrush, or desert honeysuckle, is a deciduous species of perennial flowering shrub in the family Acanthaceae. It is native to the Sonoran Desert, and can be found in south and central Arizona, as well as southwest New Mexico.
Relatively rare within the United States, it is native only to Arizona, New Mexico, and northern Mexico. It can be found throughout much of Arizona—predominantly the southern and central parts of the state, in the Sonoran Desert—and the southwestern corner of New Mexico, with large populations also growing in northern Mexico.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Anisacanthus thurberi by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
