Shrub · Fouquieria splendens
Ocotillo for backyard birds
Red spring flower spikes timed to hummingbird and oriole migration.
- Scientific name
- Fouquieria splendens
- Plant type
- Shrub
- What birds get from it
- nectar
- Native in
- 5 US states, 0 Canadian provinces/territories
- Bird species supported
- 12
Birds most often fed by Ocotillo
Counted across every state and province where Ocotillo is native and the bird is present:
- Anna's Hummingbird — 5 regions
- Black-chinned Hummingbird — 5 regions
- Verdin — 5 regions
- Bullock's Oriole — 5 regions
- White-winged Dove — 5 regions
- Hooded Oriole — 5 regions
- Broad-tailed Hummingbird — 4 regions
- Costa's Hummingbird — 4 regions
- Gila Woodpecker — 4 regions
- Ruby-throated Hummingbird — 1 region
- Baltimore Oriole — 1 region
- Orchard Oriole — 1 region