Plant with fleshy roots and erect stems with narrow succulent leaves and one reddish-orange flower in each upper leaf axil

• Indians once cooked the fleshy roots
• Southwestern United States
• A plant of the genus Kniphofia having long grasslike leaves and tall scapes of red or yellow drooping flowers

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n. a plant of the genus Kniphofia having long grasslike leaves and tall scapes of red or yellow drooping flowers [syn: kniphofia , tritoma , flame flower , flame-flower ] plant with fleshy roots and erect stems with narrow succulent leaves and one reddish-orange ...

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flameflower \flameflower\, flame flower \flame flower\n. a plant of the genus Kniphofia having long grasslike leaves and tall scapes of red or yellow drooping flowers. Syn: kniphofia, tritoma. plant of the Southwestern U. S. with fleshy roots and erect ...