'Rocky Mountain Zinnia' or 'Prairie Zinnia' or 'Paperflower' or 'Texas Zinnia' (ZIN-ya: gran-dih-FLOR-uh) Asteraceae:
Low growing plants that grow 5 inches tall
and sprawl out to about 15 inches wide. Yellow-gold flowers produced in good numbers put on
a good display in rock walls or used in a dry prairie planting or even in a desert planting. The 1.5 inch wide, round flowers have yellow-orange centers.
The foliage is thin, with short almost needle like leaves. Summer blooming, plants have a woody base and leaf out late in spring/early summer - once the ground has become warm. Grow in full sun in well draining
soils. Showy ground cover with a bright display of many gold flowers that cover the plants as they carpet the ground. This species is very drought tolerant once established. Needs very good drainage, under moist conditions plants will rot.
Zones 4-9. Native from the southern rocky mountain states of
the USA. Some times seed germination is erratic and spread out over a few years - so keep seed trays for two years and use a coarse grit to keep the seedlings from being to wet.
25 seeds.
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