| Scientific Name: | Cannabis sativa |
| Common Name: | marijuana |
| Family Name: | Cannabaceae |
| Origin: | S.E. Asia / Japan / China, South Asia / India |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 7: (-18 to -12 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Annual (true) |
| Mature Size: | 1.3 - 2.0m x 0.6 - 1.0m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Dense, Upright |
| Form: | Columnar, Oval - vertical, Pyramidal - narrowly, Pyramidal - widely, Vase |
| Texture: | Medium |
| Landscape Uses: | Medicinal plant |
| Exposure: | Full sun, Part sun/part shade |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Compound, Alternate, Soft flexible, Pubescent, Distinctive smell, Digitate (palmate), Elliptic, Lanceolate, Oblanceolate, Serrate |
| Flowers: | Cyme, White, Green-yellow, Green, Pink, May-Jun-Jul-Aug |
| Fruit: | Achene, Brown, Aug-Sep |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves alternate on upper stems, rounded with 5-9 lance-shaped to elliptic leaflets, most 5-12cm long x 1.5-4cm wide, margins serrate (reminiscent of some Japanese maples); flowers surrounded by green bracts in condensed spike-like cymes. | |