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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Culture: |
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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.
