White Zinnia Flowers

These are the white varieties of Zinnia elegans in our backyard garden.

The native Zinnia elegans, also known as Zinnia violacea, of family Asteraceae, is a warm–hot climate and wild desert plant found in Mexico, however garden varieties have been naturalised.

Zinnias are popular garden plants with hundreds of natural and cultivated varieties, with many flower colors, sizes and forms, including giant forms in which the flowerhead may be up to 15 cm in diameter. Flower colors cover a very wide range range from white (like this spotting) and cream, through green and yellow, to apricot, orange, salmon, rose, pink and red, also bronze, crimson, scarlet, maroon, purple, mauve, violet, lavender and lilac. Some are striped, speckled or bi-colored. The flower forms include single, double and semi-double. There are also "pompon" forms that resemble dahlias. Its leaves are lance-shaped and sandpapery in texture. Plant sizes range from dwarf varieties of less than 15 cm in height to medium (45–60 cm) up to 3 ft tall. The plants in this spotting are of medium height, about 2 ft tall.