1. Plant with fleshy roots and erect stems with narrow succulent leaves and one reddish-orange flower in each upper leaf axil; southwestern United States; Indians once cooked the fleshy roots
   "The Talinum aurantiacum's bright blooms stood out against the desert landscape";
   - flame flower, flame-flower, flameflower

Type of: wild flower, wildflower

Part of: genus Talinum, Talinum