| Scientific Name: | Zinnia elegans |
| Common Name: | zinnia |
| Family Name: | Asteraceae |
| Origin: | Mexico |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 2: (-46 to -40 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Annual, Flowering cut plant |
| Mature Size: | 0.2 - 0.4m x 0.1 - 0.3m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Upright |
| Form: | Pyramidal - widely |
| Texture: | Very coarse |
| Landscape Uses: | Attract beneficial insects, Bedding plant, Container planting, Cut flower or foliage, Group or mass planting |
| Exposure: | Full sun, Part sun/part shade |
| Soil or Media: | Humus rich, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Opposite, Sessile, Soft flexible, Pubescent, Lanceolate, Ovate, Entire |
| Flowers: | Head (capitulum), White, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Pink, Red, Jul-Aug-Sep-Oct |
| Fruit: | Achene, Brown, Oct-Nov |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Stems hairy, branching, mostly <1m tall; leaves opposite, simple (unlike dahlia), ovate to lance-shaped, up to 12cm long, usually lacking petioles with blade clasping the stem; flowers petal number and colour highly variable. | |