Texas Gardening: Texas Native Plant Pictures by color ( Orange ), 1 by htop

htop wrote:
Orange Fame Flower, Flame Flower (Talinum auranticum), Portulacaceae Family, Texas native, perennial, subshrub, blooms April/May through October/November after rains

Orange flame flowewr's Texas native habitat is the Edwards Plateau to North Central Texas to the Trans-Pecos region. It thrives in dry sandy, gravelly and rocky poor soils, It especially likes limestone soils. It can be found growing mostly on gravely hill tops and banks and often on rocky slopes. However, it grows in ravines, fllats, washes, dunes, sbenches, as well as often in grasslands, scrubs, and chaparrals. It blooms after rains with the approximately one inch flowers opening in the morning withering by late afternoon. The flowers are hermaphroditic (have both male and female organs). It has a large fleshy woody taproot which Native Americans used as food. It will grow in semi-shade. Foliage is often browsed by wildlife.

Texas distribution:
http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/cgi/vpt_map_name?reg=2,5,6,7,...

For more information, see its entry in the PlantFiles:
http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/69435/index.html

A view of the beautiful blooms which may be more yellowish as well ...