| Scientific Name: | Dahlia x hybrida |
| Common Name: | dahlia |
| Family Name: | Asteraceae |
| Origin: | Central America, Garden origin, Mexico |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 8b: (-9.4 to -7 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Annual (grown as), Flowering cut plant |
| Mature Size: | 0.7 - 1.3m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Dense, Spreading, Stiffly upright |
| Form: | Oval - vertical, Round |
| Texture: | Coarse |
| Landscape Uses: | Accent plant, Bedding plant, Container planting, Cut flower or foliage, Fall interest, Group or mass planting, Summer interest |
| Exposure: | Full sun |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Compound, Opposite, Soft flexible, Lustrous, Odd-pinnate, Elliptic, Ovate, Dentate |
| Flowers: | Head (capitulum), White, Orange, Yellow, Green-yellow, Green, Violet, Purple, Pink, Magenta, Red, Dark-red, Brown, Jul-Aug-Sep-Oct |
| Fruit: | Achene, Brown, Oct-Nov |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Herbaceous perennial 30cm to 2.4m tall arising from tuberous roots; leaves opposite, most pinnately compound (unlike zinnia), leaflets elliptic-ovate, 10-15cm long x 5-10cm wide, margin toothed; flower heads zinnia-like, most 5-10cm wide, round to flattened with many ray florets, usually solitary on tall stems but some will form new buds below, all colours except blue and <a href ='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dahlia' target='_blank'>classified by shape</a>. | |