Your best chance may be to dig a few up along side the road. They are a partial root parasite and therefore need other plants such as weeds or grass to keep them alive. Here in Texas they grow wild and at one time I found about 4 different colors so I dug them up and took them home. To make sure they would live I weeded them and they all died. That was when I looked them up to find out why they died. Seems they need other roots to feed them. When I planted them in my yard with all the grasses they did find until some city employee bush hogged them to the ground.

See that's why I'm so confused, its neither of those other trees and the flowers it gets are exactly like the ones in this webpage, http://bnsullivanphoto.com/2008_06_01_archive.html So it has to be something in that family. there is another one recently planted down the street. Ours in an odd location and it gets much wider than tall, so we cut back a lot of branches so it grows up. I also think its newer in stores because we found this at some local place and there were no others and I've never seen it at any other store since then. They sold it as a shrub but its definitely a tree. Is there a way to upload pictures? I have some if that would help. And im a really amateur gardener and I'm not sure what a host plant is, if you could explain more how to do it, that would be great!

Is that the same as Devil's Paintbrush? I'll have to look. At least that's wht my grandparents called it. I like it too (if it's the same), I have never seen it for sale though. I wouldn't mind if it seeded itself into my garden!

It looks lite the plants with white or pinkish flowers along the road in the first pic are variations of the prevalent red ones, or are they something different?