A FOrest Service botanist at the ranger station in my small town once told me that she had found a colony of Kniphofia uvaria growing far out in the Mt. Hood National Forest above 4000 feet elevation. We speculated that it might have come there as debris on heavy equipment used in logging, after same equipment had been used in a home garden or compost facility. This would be well above the winter snow line for our area, so the crowns probably don't get very cold, but it attests to the toughness and perhaps even invasiveness of this species, which is unpalatable to grazers. Jane McGary Northwestern Oregon At 09:00 AM 2/7/2004 -0700, you wrote: >I've seen this growing in a garden in the southern mountains of New Mexico >and here in the northern part of the state. Both areas are nominally USDA >zone 5. >