Evening-flowering biennial to 150 cm tall with leaves in a basal rosette. Basal leaves oblanceolate, narrowed to long stalks. Stem leaves 5-15 cm long, elliptic to lanceolate, crinkled, more or less entire to toothed. Flowers in spikes with petals 3.5-5 cm long, yellow fading to reddish orange. Fruit capsule 2-3.5 cm long, narrowly lanceolate in outline. Syn. O. erythrosepala Borbás.
The specific epithet is sometimes spelt glazioviana. A common weed of waste places and once frequently cultivated. Possible hybrids are available.
O. elata Kunth from W to C America is an evening-flowering biennial or shortlived perennial herb to over 2 m tall. Leaves on stem oblanceolate to lanceolate or elliptic,more or less entire to toothed, 5-25 cm long. Flowers in a spike. Petals mostly 2.5-5 cm long, yellow fading to reddish orange. Fruit capsule 2-6.5 cm long, narrowly lanceolate in outline. The most commonly grown subspecies, subsp. hookeri (Torr. & A. Gray) W. Dietr &W.L. Wagner, is to about 80 cm tall with red-flushed sepals. Syn. O. hookeri Torr. &A. Gray.
W North America.
Source: (2002). Fuchsia. In: . Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 3. Flowering plants. Dicotyledons. Part 2. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press.
