Petunia
Petunia × atkinsiana (Sweet) D.Don ex W.H.Baxter
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 30 cm
- wide
- 61 cm
Solanaceae
Also called Garden petunia, Common garden petunia
Formerly Nicotiana × atkinsiana, Nierembergia × atkinsiana, Petunia × alba, Petunia × hybrida, and 6 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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
- AnnualKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- SubtropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Nowhere: raised in cultivationKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 15 cm to 46 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 30 cm to 91 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- White, orange, red, pink, purple, blueRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension blue, green, orange, pink, purple, red, white, yellow; Wikipedia blue, orange, pink, purple, red, white
- Coldest it survives
- -1.1 °C (USDA zone 10a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- German
- Garten-Petunie
- Chinese
- 矮牽牛
- Spanish
- Petunia de jardín
- Russian
- Петуния гибридная
- Japanese
- ペチュニア, ツクバネアサガオ
- Estonian
- hübriidpetuunia, köstrilill
- Lithuanian
- Svyrančioji petunija
- Chinese (China)
- 矮牵牛
- Czech
- petunie zahradní
- Swedish
- petunia, trädgårdspetunia
- Hebrew
- פטוניה מפלית
- Ukrainian
- Петунія садова
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Petunia × atkinsiana (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.