Native to Mexico, Slipper Flower is a small and showy annual with divided leaves and spikes of puffy, pale yellow flowers. It makes a very multi-branching plant with the brightest lemon-drop little yellow "balloons" evenly spaced throughout the fresh green foliage. Leaves are narrow lance-like, deeply lobed. The generic name is derived from Calceolarius, meaning shoemaker in Latin and describes the flowers, whose shape of the lower lip reminds people of a lady slipper. This plant has escaped cultivation in some places in India, and can be seen growing wild. Flowering: October-December.