Zinnia
জিনিয়া
Zinnia elegans Jacq.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Little
- tall
- 53 cm
- wide
- 25 cm
Asteraceae
Also called Elegant Zinnia, Common Zinnia, Elegant zinnia, ELEGANT ZINNIA
Formerly Crassina elegans, Crassina linearis, Zinnia australis, Zinnia linearis, and 1 more
When it flowers
Flowers all year 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
- AnnualKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Seasonally dry tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Mexico to NicaraguaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, UF/IFAS and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by all 3 sources
- Height
- 15 cm to 91 cmRead from NC State Extension, UF/IFAS and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by 2 of 3 sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension 6–36 in; UF/IFAS 6–36 in; Wikipedia 15–90 cm
- Spread
- 20 cm to 30 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Little: takes droughtRead from NC State Extension, UF/IFAS and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by 2 of 3 sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension low; UF/IFAS medium; Wikipedia low
- Flowers
- Yellow, red, pink, purple, white, orangeRead from NC State Extension, UF/IFAS and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by 2 of 3 sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension orange, pink, purple, red, white, yellow; UF/IFAS pink, purple, red, yellow; Wikipedia brown, cream, green, orange, pink, purple, red, white, yellow
Not known yet: coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- Mal de ojo, San Rafael, Carolina amarilla
- Czech
- ostálka sličná
- Chinese
- 百日草, 百日菊 (魚尾菊), 百日菊
- Portuguese
- zínia
- Japanese
- ヒャクニチソウ, ジニア
- Russian
- Цинния изящная
- German
- Zinnie
- Indonesian
- Zinia Anggun
- Estonian
- harilik pruudisõlg
- Chinese (China)
- 百日菊, 百日草
- Swedish
- zinnia
- Thai
- บานชื่น
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
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- UF/IFAS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-24, CC BY-SA 2.0 de
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- 3D model: Zinnia elegans (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.