Zinnia peruviana
{{Short description|Species of flowering plant in the daisy family Asteraceae}}
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|name = Peruvian zinnia
|image = Peruvian Zinnia (Zinnia peruviana) (12008612756).jpg
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|genus = Zinnia
|species = peruviana
|synonyms_ref = [http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/record/gcc-127354 The Plant List, Zinnia peruviana (L.) L. ]
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|Chrysogonum peruvianum L.
|Crassina intermedia (Engelm.) Kuntze
|Crassina leptopoda (DC.) Kuntze
|Crassina multiflora (L.) Kuntze
|Crassina peruviana (L.) Kuntze
|Crassina tenuiflora (Jacq.) Kuntze
|Crassina verticillata (Andrews) Kuntze
|Lepia pauciflora (L.) Hill
|Zinnia hybrida Roem. & Usteri
|Zinnia intermedia Engelm.
|Zinnia leptopoda DC.
|Zinnia mendocina Phil.
|Zinnia multiflora L.
|Zinnia pauciflora L.
|Zinnia revoluta Cav.
|Zinnia tenuiflora Jacq.
|Zinnia verticillata Andrews
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Zinnia peruviana, the Peruvian zinnia, is an annual flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is native to North America and South America.
Description
Zinnia peruviana is an annual plant up to 50 cm tall (rarely 100 cm tall).{{Cite web|url=http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=200024677|title=Zinnia peruviana in Flora of North America @ efloras.org|website=www.efloras.org|access-date=2017-10-11}}{{Cite journal|last=Torres|first=Andrew M.|date=1963|title=Taxonomy of Zinnia|journal=Brittonia|language=en|volume=15|issue=1|pages=1–25|doi=10.2307/2805035|jstor=2805035|s2cid=5342830|issn=0007-196X}} The stems are green, but later become yellow or purple. The leaves are ovate, elliptic or lanceolate, 2.5–7 cm long and 8–3.5 cm wide; 3- to 5-nerved. The peduncles are 1–7 cm long. Flower heads with 6–21 red, maroon or yellow ray florets (with a 0.8–2.5 cm long petal each) surrounding 12–50 yellow disc florets (with 0.1 cm long corolla lobes). Fruits (cypselae) oblanceolate to narrowly elliptic, 0.7–1 cm long, 3-angled or compressed, striate.
Distribution and habitat
The native range of Z. peruviana spans from southeastern Arizona and the Greater Antilles south to Argentina. It grows mostly on open areas or rocky slopes between 800–3000 m of elevation.{{Cite journal|last1=Nash|first1=Dorothy|last2=Williams|first2=Louis|date=1976|title=Flora of Guatemala|journal=Fieldiana|language=en|volume=v.24:pt.12|pages=359–360}}
It has been introduced to and naturalized in many places such as China, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Australia, South Africa and Hawaii.{{Cite web|url=http://www.starrenvironmental.com/images/search/?q=Zinnia+peruviana|title=Zinnia peruviana - Plants of Hawaii - Starr Environmental|website=www.starrenvironmental.com|access-date=2017-10-11}}{{Cite web|url=http://bie.ala.org.au/species/http://id.biodiversity.org.au/node/apni/2892210|title=Zinnia peruviana {{!}} Atlas of Living Australia|website=bie.ala.org.au|language=en-AU|access-date=2017-10-11}}{{Cite book|title=Plants of southern Africa : an annotated checklist|last1=Germishuizen|first1=G.|last2=Meyer|first2=N.|date=2003|publisher=National Botanical Institute|isbn=1919795995|location=Pretoria|pages=310|oclc=54957425}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200024677|title=Zinnia peruviana in Flora of China @ efloras.org|website=www.efloras.org|access-date=2017-10-11}}{{Cite journal|last=Sud|first=Gunjan|date=2016|title=Zinnia peruviana L. (Asteraceae) an overlooked Species from Himachal Pradesh|url=http://www.indianforester.co.in/index.php/indianforester/article/view/101658|journal=Indian Forester|language=en|volume=142|issue=8|pages=795–796|issn=2321-094X}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.tropicos.org/ImageFullView.aspx?imageid=100017472 photo of herbarium specimen collected in Nuevo León in Mexico in 1993]
- [http://www.tropicos.org/ImageFullView.aspx?imageid=83472 line drawing from Manual of Vascular Plants of the Lower Yangtze Valley China Illustration fig. 378 ]
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Category:Flora of Central America
Category:Flora of Southern America
Category:Garden plants of North America
Category:Garden plants of South America
Category:Plants described in 1753