Garden dahlia
ഡാലിയ പിന്നറ്റ
Dahlia pinnata Cav.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 99 cm
- wide
- 46 cm
Asteraceae
Also called Garden Dahlia, Dahlia, Pinnate dahlia
Formerly Bidens variabilis, Coreopsis georgina, Dahlia mexicana, Dahlia nana, and 12 more
When it flowers
Flowers June to March in the tropics.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Tuberous geophyteKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Seasonally dry tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- As a cultigen from MexicoKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from Temperate Plants Database, Memphis Area Master Gardeners and UF/IFAS Extension, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by 2 of 3 sources. Sources differ: Temperate Plants Database full; Memphis Area Master Gardeners full, part; UF/IFAS Extension full, part
- Height
- 99 cmRead from Temperate Plants Database and UF/IFAS Extension, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: Temperate Plants Database 1–1 m; UF/IFAS Extension 1–6 ft
- Spread
- 30 cm to 61 cmRead from UF/IFAS Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from Wikipedia and Memphis Area Master Gardeners, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Flowers
- Pink, purple, white, orangeRead from Wikipedia, UF/IFAS Extension and Memphis Area Master Gardeners, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by 2 of 3 sources. Sources differ: Wikipedia pink, purple; UF/IFAS Extension orange, pink, purple, white, yellow; Memphis Area Master Gardeners orange, pink, purple, red, white
- Coldest it survives
- -8.6 °C (USDA zone 8b)Read from Temperate Plants Database and Memphis Area Master Gardeners, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: Temperate Plants Database -5 °C; Memphis Area Master Gardeners -12.2 °C
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
Grow it with
Suggested by a rule, not by a gardener: same climate (kew), flowering when this plant does not (inaturalist), and a different shape.
Arabian jasmineFlowers April to May, when this does not
Barbados gooseberryFlowers April to May, when this does not
Black-eyed Susan vineFlowers April to May, when this does not
Blue dazeFlowers April to May, when this does not
Brazilian pepperFlowers April to May, when this does not
Bush Morning GloryFlowers April to May, when this does not
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- Dalia
- root
- ita-xini-xitoho, Xicamaxóchitl
- Czech
- jiřinka zahradní, jiřina zahradní
- French
- Dahlia commun
- Russian
- Георгина перистая
- Finnish
- tarhadaalia
- Lithuanian
- Didžiagraižis jurginas
- German
- Großfiedrige Dahlie
- Chinese (China)
- 大丽花, 地瓜花, 大丽菊
- Korean
- 다알리아
- Japanese
- ダリア, テンジクボタン
- Ukrainian
- Жоржина садова
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Temperate Plants Database, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Memphis Area Master Gardeners, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- UF/IFAS Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-24, CC BY-SA 4.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- 3D model: Dahlia pinnata (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.