| Scientific Name: | Nemesia (incl. hybrid cvs.) |
| Common Name: | nemesia |
| Family Name: | Plantaginaceae |
| Origin: | Africa - northern, Garden origin |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 10: (-1 to 4 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Annual (grown as) |
| Mature Size: | 0.2 - 0.4m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Arching, Spreading |
| Form: | Irregular |
| Texture: | Fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Bedding plant, Container planting, Summer interest |
| Exposure: | Full sun, Part sun/part shade |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Opposite, Sessile, Soft flexible, Heavily veined, Palmate venation, Glabrous, Lanceolate, Dentate |
| Flowers: | White, Orange, Yellow, Violet, Purple, Pink, Red, Dark-red, Jun-Jul-Aug-Sep |
| Fruit: | Capsule, Aborted (hybrids) or absent, Green, Brown, Sep-Oct |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves opposite, lanceolate, 2-4cm long x 1-2cm wide, margin sparsely serrate; flowers bilaterally symmetrical, ~1cm wide, white, pink, yellow, purple, back spur, throat with yellow palate. | |