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Flower
Pentas (Star Flower)
Pentas lanceolata
Clusters of star-shaped blooms all summer that butterflies and hummingbirds love. Grown as a warm-season annual in North Texas.
Recommended uses
- Borders
- Containers
- Pollinator gardens
- Plant type
- Annual flower
- Annual / perennial
- Annual
- Evergreen / deciduous
- Evergreen
- Sun
- Full sun to part shade
- Shade tolerance
- Moderate
- Water needs
- Medium
- Bloom season
- Spring, Summer, Fall
- Bloom color
- Red, Pink, Purple, White
- Mature height
- 1–2 ft
- Mature width
- 1–2 ft
- Maintenance
- Low
- Texas heat tolerance
- High
- Drought tolerance
- Medium