One for ID please.

[Lesley Cox]

This plant is growing in the grass verge between my neighbour's paddock fence and the road. I've been driving past it for a week thinking at first it was an Orobanche then it became too orange. It seems to be a Kniphofia but it is only 25cms high and the foliage is just two very small fans/rosettes. Would a Kniphofia so small produce two flower stems? The flower is rather Velthemia-like but more orange than pink and the foliage is wrong for that. It has been mown a couple of times but the stems have come quickly, since the last mow about 10 days ago. I can't see any other Kniphofias in surrounding gardens so if it's a seedling it must have come from quite a distance.

[Paul T]

Lesley,

Looks to me like a well mown Kniphofia.  Is it worth putting this down in the ID area (Plant Identification Questions and Answers) as well, just in case some folk look there as well as here?  Or a link in there to here?

[Maggi Young]

I think it would be possible for even a mown Kniphofia to produce two stems.  This could be perhaps bea K. triangularis.
I would really like some Kniphofias to stay that size of their own free will.... I've tried a few so-called dwarf forms but they  always grow too tall for my liking. 

[Anthony Darby]

I would move it as it might disappear if you left it a lawn?

[Lesley Cox]

I'd like a really dwarf one too but if moved this will grow up I suppose. I daresay it'll be mown again over Easter.