Scientific Name:	Stevia rebaudiana
Pronunciation:	STEV-ee-uh re-bawd-ee-AH-nuh
Common Name:	stevia, sweetleaf
Family Name:	Asteraceae
Plant Type:	Annual
Key ID Features:	Very sweet taste (up to 30 times sweeter than sugar); leaves opposite, sessile, elliptic to oblong with serrate margins; heads with only 5(-8) disk florets, each with 5 white petals.
Course(s):	HORT 1193/1293

Habit: Upright Form: Columnar Texture: Medium Mature Size: Height: 0.4 - 0.7m Spread: 0.3 - 0.6m Growth Rate: Fast Origin: South America (Paraguay) Hardiness Rating: Zone 10: (-1 to 4 C) Exposure: Full sun Soil/ Growing Medium: Landscape Uses: Bedding plant, Herb Additional Info: Google

Leaf Morphology: Glossary Form: Simple Arrangement: Opposite Texture/ Venation: Soft flexible Surfaces: Pubescent Colour in Fall: Green-yellow Leaf(let) Terms: Shapes: Elliptic, Obovate Apices: Rounded Bases: Attenuate Margins: Crenate, Dentate, Serrate Additional Info: margins entire for about 1/3 of leaf towards base

Inflorescence Type: Corymb-like, Head (capitulum) Flower Morphology: Flowers perfect Corolla Shape: Ligulate Ovary Position: Inferior Colour (petals): Showy, White Flower Time at Peak: Jul, Aug Additional Info: Not a typical head 5 to 8 large disc florets and bracts

Fruit Type: Cypsela (achene + calyx) Fruit Colour: Brown Fruiting Time: Sep, Oct

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Location(s): (CGW) Community Garden West Location Map

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