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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 |
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: | |
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 (up to 30 times sweeter than sugar); leaves opposite, sessile, elliptic to oblong with serrate margins; heads with only 5(-8) disk florets, each with 5 white petals. |