| Scientific Name: | Gypsophila paniculata |
| Common Name: | baby's breath |
| Family Name: | Caryophyllaceae |
| Origin: | Europe |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 3: (-40 to -34 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Flowering cut plant, Herbaceous perennial, Invasive plant |
| Mature Size: | 0.7 - 1.3m x 0.6 - 1.0m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Spreading, Twiggy |
| Form: | Mounded |
| Texture: | Fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Attract butterflies, Cut flower or foliage, Dried flower or fruit, Filler, Floristry, Perennial border |
| Exposure: | Full sun |
| Soil or Media: | Alkaline, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Opposite, Sessile, Soft flexible, Glabrous, Lanceolate, Linear, Oblanceolate, Entire |
| Flowers: | Cyme, White, Pink, Jul-Aug, Can flower any month |
| Fruit: | Capsule, Brown, Sep-Oct |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Sterms highly branched, 40-120cm tall; leaves similar to carnation - opposite, sessile on swollen nodes, lanceolate-linear to oblanceolate, most 2-9(-13)cm long x 0.2-1(-3)cm wide(enlarged on some cultivars), prominent midrib but other veins indistinct; panicle-like cyme white florets or rarely pink, 4-8mm wide, 5 to many petals (often used in floral arrangements - especially with roses). | |