Creeping Zinnia
(Trailing Sanvitalia)
Sanvitalia procumbens. ASTERACEAE (COMPOSITAE).
Planting and Growing Creeping Zinnia
You’ll find everything you need to know to plant and grow creeping zinnia in the accompanying table’s tabs:
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- Flowers, foliage, and root structure of creeping zinnia
- Plant hardiness and growing conditions for creeping zinnia
- Season of bloom and planting time for creeping zinnia
- When, how deep, and where to plant creeping zinnia
- How to plant creeping zinnia
- Watering, fertilizing, care, and pests or diseases of creeping zinnia
- Landscape and container uses of creeping zinnia
- Comments about creeping zinnia and its features
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Growing Creeping Zinnia
Many cultivars of low, branching or spreading annual herbs, to 6 in. (15 cm) tall and 18 in. (45 cm) wide. Opposite, hairy, light green, broadly lance-shaped leaves, to 2-1/2-in. (63-mm) long.
Common cultivars include Sanvitalia procumbens ‘Flore-Pleno’, ‘Gold Braid’, and ‘Mandarin Orange’.
Planting and Care Guide
Blooms
Many solitary, orange, yellow, daisylike, single- or double-petaled flowers, 3/4–1-in. (19–25-mm) wide, with large, purple brown centers, in summer–late autumn.
Best Climates
Self-seeding, zones 2–11
Soil Type and Fertility
Moist to damp, well-drained soil. Fertility: Average–low. 7.0–7.5 pH.
Where and How to Plant
Late spring in full sun, 6–12 in.(15–30 cm) apart, after frost hazard has passed. Avoid transplanting.
Proper Care
Easy. Keep moist until established; allow soil surface to dry between waterings. Fertilize quarterly. Propagate by seed.
About This Plant
Good choice for banks, hanging baskets, borders, containers, fillers, ground covers, in cottage, meadow, natural, rock gardens. Pest and disease resistant.