Zinnia elegans

Zinnia elegans
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Genus: Zinnia
Species:
Z. elegans
Binomial name
Zinnia elegans
Jacq. 1793, conserved name not Jacq. 1797 nor Sessé & Moc. 1890
Synonyms[1][2]
  • Zinnia violacea Cav.
  • Crassina elegans (Jacq.) Kuntze
  • Zinnia australis F.M.Bailey

Zinnia elegans (syn. Zinnia violacea) known as youth-and-age,[3] common zinnia or elegant zinnia, is an annual flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. 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]

  1. ^ Tropicos, Zinnia elegans Jacq.
  2. ^ The Plant List, Zinnia violacea Cav.
  3. ^ BSBI List 2007 (xls). Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland. Archived from the original (xls) on 2015-06-26. Retrieved 2014-10-17.
  4. ^ "Biota of North America Program 2014 county distribution map". bonap.net.
  5. ^ Altervista Flora Italiana, Zinnia elegans Jacq.
  6. ^ Australia, Atlas of Living. "Zinnia elegans : Zinnia – Atlas of Living Australia". bie.ala.org.au.
  7. ^ 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
  8. ^ Dodson, C.H., A.H. Gentry & F.M. Valverde Badillo. (1985). La Flora de Jauneche: Los Ríos, Ecuador. Banco Central del Ecuador, Quito. ISBN 9789978590126
  9. ^ 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. ISBN 9780893274405