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Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Zinnia elegans   FAMILY Asteraceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Zinnia violacea   FAMILY Asteraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Zinnia elegans

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21 (2006)

Zinnia violacea

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)

Zinnia violacea

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Zinnia elegans

 

COMMON NAME:
Garden Zinnia, Elegant Zinnia


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image of Zinnia elegans, Garden Zinnia, Elegant Zinnia

Tracey Slotta / USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / ARS Systematic Botany & Mycology Lab    pnd_ziel_002_lhp

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Achenes winged, per Weakley's Flora (2023).

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Zinnia elegans   FAMILY Asteraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Zinnia violacea   FAMILY Asteraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Zinnia elegans

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21
Zinnia violacea

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Zinnia violacea

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Zinnia elegans

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

4896

Forb
Annual

Habitat: Disturbed areas, commonly cultivated, per Weakley's Flora

Non-native: New World tropics

Waif(s)

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LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite or subopposite

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Rays: usually red (white, yellow, or purple in cultivars)
Disc: Yellow
Disc flowers bisexual & fertile/ Ray flowers pistillate & fertile

FRUIT:

 

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