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Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Annual
Fruit: Showy
Flower Color: Pink
Purple
White
Bloom Size: 1"-2"
Flower Time: Late spring or early summer
Summer
Late summer or early fall
Uses: Suitable as Annual
Propagation: Seeds: Suitable for wintersowing
Sow in situ
Start indoors
Containers: Suitable in 1 gallon
Suitable in 3 gallon or larger

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Common names
  • Butterfly Flower
  • Poor Man's Orchid

Photo Gallery

Date: 2009-08-08
Location: All pictures taken in/on my gardens/greenhouse/property
Location: Lilburn Tower garden, Northumberland
Date: 2019-06-16
In a glasshouse
Location: all photos from my garden
Location: Lilburn Tower garden, Northumberland
Date: 2012-06-03
In a glasshouse
Location: Lilburn Tower garden, Northumberland
Date: 2019-06-16
In a glasshouse
Location: Lilburn Tower garden, Northumberland
Date: 2012-06-03
In a glasshouse
Location: In my garden in Kalama, Wa.
Date: 2006-07-09
  • Uploaded by Joy
Location: my garden 
Date: 2017-11-02
Location: In my garden in Kalama, Wa.
Date: Mid Summer
  • Uploaded by Joy
Plant Events from our members
piksihk On February 9, 2018 Seeds sown
Ed Hume 2015 seeds in pot
piksihk On November 1, 2017 Seeds germinated
Wet paper towel -
piksihk On October 15, 2017 Seeds sown
Ed Hume seeds
piksihk On March 8, 2016 Seeds sown
piksihk On January 22, 2015 Obtained plant
ed hume seeds; just seeds
piksihk On May 31, 2014 Plant Ended (Removed, Died, Discarded, etc)
KelliW On February 29, 2020 Seeds germinated
sprouts in jug
KelliW On January 22, 2020 Seeds sown
wintersown outdoors in jug, zone 6b
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