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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 peruviana   FAMILY Asteraceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Zinnia peruviana   FAMILY Asteraceae

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

Zinnia peruviana

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

Zinnia peruviana

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

Zinnia peruviana

 

COMMON NAME:
Peruvian Zinnia


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image of Zinnia peruviana, Peruvian Zinnia

Tracey Slotta / USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / ARS Systematic Botany & Mycology Lab    pnd_zimu3_001_lhp

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

 

 

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Zinnia peruviana   FAMILY Asteraceae

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

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

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

 

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4897

Forb
Annual

Habitat: Commonly cultivated, rare as a waif in disturbed areas, 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 scarlet red or maroon (sometimes yellow)
Disc: Yellow
Disc flowers bisexual & fertile/ Ray flowers pistillate & fertile

FRUIT:

 

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