Indians once cooked the fleshy roots

• Plant with fleshy roots and erect stems with narrow succulent leaves and one reddish-orange flower in each upper leaf axil
• Southwestern United States
• A plant of the genus Kniphofia having long grasslike leaves and tall scapes of red or yellow drooping flowers

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
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 ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
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 ...