Bright, fiery, and full of hummingbird appeal, Cuphea ‘Firecracker’ brings vivid tubular flowers and fine-textured foliage to sunny garden spaces. This colorful cigar plant is loved for its warm red-orange blooms, long flowering season, and easygoing nature in borders, containers, pollinator gardens, and wildlife-friendly plantings. Cheerful, compact, and constantly busy with garden visitors, it adds a spark of color and movement wherever summer warmth is welcome.

Growing into a tidy, bushy plant, Cuphea ‘Firecracker’ works beautifully as a container accent, edging plant, low border, or lively filler among sun-loving perennials and drought-tolerant garden favorites. Its bright tubular flowers pair wonderfully with purple salvias, blue verbenas, lantanas, yarrow, gaura, ornamental grasses, lavender, and silver foliage, creating a layered, pollinator-friendly garden display with plenty of contrast and energy. Hummingbirds especially adore the blooms, while bees, butterflies, and beneficial insects add even more life to the planting.

Plant Cuphea ‘Firecracker’ in full sun to part sun with well-drained soil and moderate water while it settles in. Once established, this low-maintenance perennial shrub handles warm weather beautifully and keeps blooming with very little fuss. Colorful, durable, and wonderfully useful, it is a standout choice for adding long-lasting color and wildlife appeal to sunny spaces. Explore more hummingbird favorites in our Cuphea - Cigar Plants collection.

We guarantee that the plants we sell are healthy and viable at the time they leave our care.

If a plant arrives in substandard condition, please take clear photographs and contact us within 48 hours of delivery. To ensure eligibility under this guarantee, we strongly encourage you to open and unpack your shipment immediately upon delivery and inspect the plants thoroughly.

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$14.99 flat rate for up to 6 plants is for standard FedEx/UPS Ground shipping to eligible states only. $19.99 for up to 12 plants. Plants being shipped to the following states are sent via Express Mail to help ensure they arrive quickly and healthy. 

(AL, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, IN, KY, ME, MD, MA, MI, NH, NJ, NY, NC, OH, PA, RI, SC, TN, VT, VA, WV)
(list of states subject to change seasonally due to extreme heat or cold conditions)

We cannot ship Annie's Annuals plants to P.O. boxes or outside the continental U.S.

Individual plants are shipped in 4" pots and we ship in boxes of 4, 6, 8, or 12 plants per box.

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