Texas Gardening: Gardening with Texas Native plants @ Wildflowers. Part 3., 1 by frostweed

frostweed wrote:
This plant is a favorite of mine because of the gorgeous color, Coral Bean or Cherokee Bean,
( Erythrina herbacea) This is a native, tender perennial in this area that dies to the ground and comes back every year. The interesting thing is that it blooms before it sets leaves. It normally gets to about four feet high, although in warmer climates it doesn't die to the ground and gets to be a taller shrub. These pictures are from last year, it is just starting to form buds now.