| Scientific Name: | Stevia rebaudiana |
| Common Name: | stevia, sweetleaf |
| Family Name: | Asteraceae |
| Origin: | South America |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 10: (-1 to 4 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Annual (grown as) |
| Mature Size: | 0.4 - 0.7m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Upright |
| Form: | Columnar |
| Texture: | Medium |
| Landscape Uses: | Bedding plant, Herb |
| Exposure: | Full sun |
| Soil or Media: | Humus rich, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Opposite, Soft flexible, Pubescent, Elliptic, Obovate, Crenate, Dentate, Serrate |
| Flowers: | Head (capitulum), White, Jul-Aug |
| Fruit: | Cypsela (achene + calyx), Brown, Sep-Oct |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Very sweet taste (30-50 times sweeter than table sugar); leaves opposite, sessile, most 5-10cm long x 1-4cm wide, blade elliptic to oblong, margin serrate, pubescent; heads with only 5(-8) disk florets, each with 5 white petals. | |