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Flower
Zinnia
Zinnia elegans
Easy, colorful summer annual grown from seed after the last frost. Water at the base to help prevent powdery mildew.
Recommended uses
- Flower beds
- Cut flowers
- Pollinator gardens
- Plant type
- Bedding annual
- Annual / perennial
- Annual
- Sun
- Full sun
- Shade tolerance
- Medium
- Water needs
- Medium
- Bloom season
- Summer, Fall
- Bloom color
- Red, Orange, Yellow, Pink, Purple, White
- Mature height
- 1–3 ft
- Mature width
- 1–2 ft
- Maintenance
- Low
- Texas heat tolerance
- High
- Drought tolerance
- Medium