flower question

[cellio]

Someday, maybe I will be able to use an image as input to Google. In the meantime...

Dear LJ brain trust,

What is this plant?


That's a 12oz beer bottle next to it (for size calibration):


Color here is not accurate; use the previous photo for that:



My real questions are mostly about care and feeding, but given a name I should be able to find that. Thanks.

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[cellio]

Thanks. Google says: perennial but not safe to winter over outdoors here in Pittsburgh. Sadly, that reduces its long-term odds in my custody. :-( (At least outdoors I could park it in the right lighting conditions and it would have a shot at rainwater...)