Zowie! Yellow Flame Zinnia is a fast-growing annual that has an upright mounding habit with clean green foliage and large bicolor blooms. The semi-double blooms with a large cone and yellow tipped petals that start as magenta single flowers and become double orange-red flowers bloom from mid spring and throughout summer. Flowers best in full sun and average well-drained to lightly clay soils. Drought and heat tolerant.
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 Origins:  | 
 Southwestern USA and Central America  | 
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 Height:  | 
 2' - 2.5'  | 
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 Spread:  | 
 2' - 2.5'  | 
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 Spacing:  | 
 1'  | 
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 USDA Hardiness Zone:  | 
 3 - 10  | 
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 Bloom Color:  | 
 Red+Yellow  | 
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MAINTENANCE NEEDS: Low maintenance. Pinching back the plant when young will encourage a bushy form. Watch for whiteflies, aphids, and caterpillars. Potential diseases include powdery mildew, leaf spot, root rots, and blight.
LANDSCAPE USES: Accents or Group Plantings, Edging, Naturalized Areas, Wildlife Garden, Foundational Plantings, and Containers.
COMPANION PLANTS: Sweet Potato Vine, Fescue, Heliopsis
IMAGES: Cephas, Zinnia elegans 'Zowie Yellow Flame' JRVdH 02, CC BY-SA 4.0, (2) Bill Murray, Zowie, (3) Photoset by F. D. Richards, (1) Zinnia F1 'Zowie! Yellow Flame, (2) Hidden Lake Gardens, MSU
*As plants have ranges in appearance they may not appear as the images shown.