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Site Characteristics
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Sunlight:
Soil conditions:
- tolerates droughty soil
- requires well-drained soil
Prefers light loamy soil and cool nights.
Special locations:
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Plant Traits
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Lifecycle:
annual
Ease-of-care:
easy
Height:
0.8 to 1.5 feet
Spread:
0.5 to 1 feet
Bloom time:
- mid-summer
- late summer
- early fall
Flower color:
- red
- orange
- yellow
- violet
- white
- pink
These hybrid plants are available in a wide array of shades of these basic colors. They often have deeper colored or different colored rings around their darker colored centers. The flowers close at night.
Foliage color:
other
Silvery green with wavy or deeply lobed margins.
Foliage texture:
medium
Shape:
upright
Shape in flower:
same as above
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Special Considerations
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Tolerates:
Special characteristics:
- non-aggressive
- May self-seed in warm climates, but it is not generally considered a weedy plant.
- non-invasive
- not native to North America
- South Africa
Special uses:
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