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How to Grow

Water
Low - Medium
Water sparingly, allowing the mix to nearly dry out between watering.

Sunlight
Partial Shade - Full Sun


3-6 hours of sun per day, with protection from intense mid-day sun
Characteristics
Bloom Time
Jun, Jul, Aug
Plant Type
Annual, Ground Cover, Poisonous
Lifespan
Annual, Perennial
Flower
Axillary, solitary, rosy-pink to mauve to reddish, or white. The calyx is green, tube slender, lobes subulate. Corolla is salverform, bearing 5 glands apically on the tube, lobes often with prominent eyespot at the throat. The ovary is two-chambered, splitting apart in fruit. It blooms from June until frost.
Fruit
fruits long, slender, often paired. Elongate follicles within one persisting calyx.
Benefits
Attracts
Butterflies
Pollinators
Taxonomy
Order
Gentianales
Family
Apocynaceae
Genus
Catharanthus