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  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Myrtles, Evening Primroses, and Allies
  6. Lythrum Family
  7. Cigar Plants

genus

Cigar Plants

Cuphea

Traits
Includes
3 native 6 introduced 3 present
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Children 24 of 28

  • False Heather introduced
  • Colombian Waxweed introduced
  • Cigar Plant introduced
  • Tropical Waxweed introduced
  • Cuphea racemosa
  • Stiffhair Waxweed native
  • Blue Waxweed native
  • Bat-faced Cuphea introduced
  • Sticky Waxweed introduced
  • Wright's Waxweed present
  • Candy Corn Plant present
  • Caribbean-sunset present
  • Cuphea fruticosa
  • Cuphea appendiculata
  • Creeping Waxweed
  • Cuphea nitidula
  • Cuphea lanceolata
  • Cuphea utriculosa
  • Strongback
  • Tropical Waxweed native
  • Cuphea schumannii
  • Cuphea nudicostata
  • Cuphea pinetorum
  • Cuphea anagalloidea

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Key traits

Layer
Shrubs
Plant type
Annual Perennial Shrub Wildflower

From USDA PLANTS.

Top native cigar plants All

Native to the US, ranked by caterpillars, then bees and other hosts, food, flowers and shelter.

  • Blue Waxweed Cuphea viscosissima caterpillars 1 flowers 25
  • Stiffhair Waxweed Cuphea strigulosa flowers 5
  • Tropical Waxweed Cuphea aspera flowers 5

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