Zauschneria californica n 1: shrublet of southwestern United States to Mexico having brilliant scarlet flowers [syn: {California fuchsia}, {humming bird's trumpet}, {Epilobium canum canum}, {Zauschneria californica}]
Zauschneria \Zau*schne"ri*a\, n. [NL., named for M. Zauschner, a Bohemian botanist.] (Bot.) A genus of flowering plants. {Zauschneria Californica} is a suffrutescent perennial, with showy red flowers much resembling those of the garden fuchsia. [1913 Webster]