A new and distinct cultivar of Red Hot Poker plant named Kniphofia ‘；Backdraft’； with long, gracefully-arching, strap-like, keeled, glaucous, gray-green foliage and numerous scapes beginning in early summer and repeating though early fall. Habit is densely growing, winter-hardy and tolerant of heat. Numerous scapes of intense reddish-orange flowers that mature to pale yellow on short scapes beginning in early summer and repeating into early October. The new plant is useful for landscaping as a specimen, en masse, or as a long-lasting cut flower.
