This species may hybridize with White Fairy Trumpet to produce intermediate shades of pink. Hummingbirds love these flowers. Petal tips are deeply notched into two round lobes. Narrow, opposite, fuzzy. The two round lobes of a petal resemble a mouse's ears.
Petals quickly turn pink with age.
Pinnately cut into thin sections. Bright red-purple flowers with four petals, in a long spire on a tall stem. Only a few flowers bloom at a time, beginning at the bottom of the raceme and progressing upwards. Long, lance-shaped, alternate. Its common name is derived from its ability to rapidly colonize recently burned areas after a forest fire, not its reddish color.