Vermillionaire® Cuphea

Light Needs

Full Sun

(At Least 6 Hours Of Direct Sunlight)

Mature Height

1.5-2 Feet

Mature Spread

1-2 Feet

Vermillionaire® Large Firecracker Plant (Cuphea hybrid 'cupver') has deep green foliage with long, tubular orange/yellow/red flowers. Hummingbirds love this plant and will seek it out in a garden. Since it blooms all spring, summer, and until frost in the fall, you have beautiful color in your garden for a long time. This plant loves heat and direct sun, so is great for the southern United States.

Once the plant is established, it is very drought tolerant. Vermillionaire® Large Firecracker Plant is a good filler when planted in a container with other plants because of its mounded growth habit and pretty flowers. Vermillionaire® can mark a border and no one can say they didn’t know it was there.  It makes a statement as a mass planting and can be a specimen plant in the landscape.

Vermillionaire Cuphea Care

Vermillionaire® loves full sun and heat. It gets long and lanky in part shade. This plant requires regular fertilization from spring until the fall to keep reblooming. No deadheading is necessary, the flowers will drop off when spent.  While the adult plant is very drought tolerant, it needs regular watering when growing. Vermillionaire® does just fine with average soil. 

Vermillionaire® should not be cut back in winter. If there are issues with dead material, or the plant gets leggy, prune it when it starts new growth in the spring. If you bring this plant indoors for the winter, it will need direct sun and a warm place to stay. If you live in a zone colder than 8a, the plant won’t make it through the winter, so plan on planting replacements next spring.

Vermillionaire Cuphea Spacing

Sometimes it is hard to know how much space a grown plant will need when you are planting the baby plants.  It can look sparse until the plants start growing.   You need to space Vermillionaire® 12-18 inches from other plants so it has room to spread out to 12-24 inches wide when fully grown.  You can put small plants in front of Vermillionaire® because it will grow to be 12-18 inches tall.

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CUPVEP