Leonotis leonurus - Lion's tail
Family Lamiaceae
Description:
About fourteen species of Leonotis are native to Africa with one species ranging to India. Lion's tail is the commonest in cultivation in Florida. It grows as a tall, upright clump of stems. Flowers are clusters of orange tubes produced through summer to the first hard freeze.
Location:
See plants along the south side of building 832B.
Size:
Herbaceous perennial to about six feet tall.
Care Instructions:
Light: full sun
Water: average, somewhat drought tolerant
Soil: average soil, no special requirements
Lion's tail is an easy plant for a sunny, well-drained soil in northeast Florida. It is evergreen in warmer climates. In Jacksonville, a hard freeze will kill it to the ground and it usually resprouts the following spring.