Zinnia elegans (syn.Zinnia violacea) known as youth-and-age,[3]common zinnia or elegant zinnia, is an annualflowering plant in the familyAsteraceae. It is native to Mexico but grown as an ornamental in many places and naturalised in several places, including scattered locations in South and Central America, the West Indies, the United States, Australia, and Italy.[4][5][6][7][8][9]
^Berendsohn, W.G. & A.E. Araniva de González. 1989. Listado básico de la Flora Salvadorensis: Dicotyledonae, Sympetalae (pro parte): Labiatae, Bignoniaceae, Acanthaceae, Pedaliaceae, Martyniaceae, Gesneriaceae, Compositae. Cuscatlania 1(3): 290–1–290–13
^Dodson, C.H., A.H. Gentry & F.M. Valverde Badillo. (1985). La Flora de Jauneche: Los Ríos, Ecuador. Banco Central del Ecuador, Quito. ISBN9789978590126
^Balick, M. J., M. H. Nee & D.E. Atha. (2000). "Checklist of the vascular plants of Belize". Memoirs of The New York Botanical Garden 85, pp. i–ix, 1–246. ISBN9780893274405