| Description | 'Purple Prince' Zinnia (Zinnia elegans) is tall with large, mounded wine-purple flowers. |
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| Pronunciation | (zin-EE-a)(EL-e-genz) |
| Plant Type | Annuals, Site author's observations |
| Sunlight | full, mostly sunny |
| Moisture | average tolerates dry but not drought |
| Soil & Site | average |
| Temperature | not frost tolerant |
| Flowers | double, magenta to purple, wine purple, most but not all were double, |
| Leaves | green |
| Dimensions | 24-36 inches, mine reached 30 inches |
| Maintenance | deadhead increase flower production |
| Propagation | easy from seeds, can be seeded insitu |
| Cultivar Origin | circa 1949 |
| Author's Notes | Like all Zinnia, they are very easy to grow from seeds and fast growers. Not all but most of the flowers were double. |
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