Asteraceae

Zinnia L.

First published in Syst. Nat., ed. 10. 2: 1189, 1221, 1377 (1759), nom. cons.
This genus is accepted
The native range of this genus is Central & S. U.S.A. to Venezuela and N. Argentina.

Distribution

Native to:

Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Arizona, Belize, Bolivia, Colombia, Colorado, Ecuador, El Salvador, Florida, Georgia, Guatemala, Honduras, Kansas, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, New Mexico, Nicaragua, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Paraguay, Peru, South Carolina, Texas, Venezuela

Introduced into:

Andaman Is., Assam, Austria, Bahamas, Baleares, Bangladesh, Belarus, Benin, Botswana, Bulgaria, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, Cape Verde, Caroline Is., Chad, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Connecticut, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czechia-Slovakia, Djibouti, Dominican Republic, East Himalaya, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Fiji, France, Free State, Germany, Gilbert Is., Gulf of Guinea Is., Haiti, Hawaii, Hungary, India, Italy, Jawa, Kazakhstan, Kentucky, Kenya, Korea, Krym, KwaZulu-Natal, Leeward Is., Lesotho, Louisiana, Malawi, Marianas, Marshall Is., Mauritius, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, New South Wales, New York, Niue, Northern Provinces, NW. Balkan Pen., Ohio, Panamá, Pennsylvania, Phoenix Is., Poland, Portugal, Primorye, Puerto Rico, Queensland, Rodrigues, Romania, Réunion, Samoa, Sardegna, Sicilia, Sierra Leone, Society Is., South European Russia, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Tadzhikistan, Thailand, Transcaucasus, Trinidad-Tobago, Tubuai Is., Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Vietnam, Zimbabwe

Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

Accepted Species

Classification

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Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Roskov Y. & al. (eds.) (2018). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands.

Flora of Iraq

  • Benth. & Hook. f., Gen. Plant. 2: 357 (1873)
  • L. Syst. Nat. ed. 10: 1221 (1759)
  • Panero in Kubitzki, Fam. Gen. Vasc. Pl. 8: 476 [2006] (2007).
  • Patricia Halliday (Revised by D. J. Nicholas Hind) (2019). Flora of Iraq, Volume 6: Compositae. Ghazanfar, S. A., Edmondson, J. R. & Hind, D. J. N. (Eds). Kew Publishing
  • Torres A.M. (1963). Taxonomy of Zinnia. Brittonia 15 (1): 1–25.

Flora of Somalia

  • Flora Somalia, (2000) Author: by M. Thulin [updated by M. Thulin 2008]

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
Hummel, D. [4633] China K003147797 Yes
Florence, J.; Lorence, D.; Perlman, S.; Wagner, W. [9459] French Polynesia K003147822 Yes

Sources

  • Flora of Iraq

    • Ghazanfar, S. A., Edmondson, J. R. (Eds). (2013-2019). Flora of Iraq, Volumes 5.1, 5.2 and 6.0. Kew Publishing
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Flora of Somalia

    • Flora of Somalia
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

    • 'The Herbarium Catalogue, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet http://www.kew.org/herbcat [accessed on Day Month Year]'. Please enter the date on which you consulted the system.

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2025. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2025. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Science Photographs

    • Copyright applied to individual images

  • Plants and People Africa

    • Common Names from Plants and People Africa http://www.plantsandpeopleafrica.com/
    • © Plants and People Africa http://www.plantsandpeopleafrica.com http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/