Rocky Mountain Zinnia
Zinnia grandifloraRocky Mountain Zinnia is a shrub native to the Texas Hill Country that grows 0.5–1 ft tall and 1 ft wide. It wants full sun or part shade and low water, and handles caliche soil. Blooms yellow in May–Oct. Evergreen — it holds its leaves through winter. Deer rarely browse it. Good for bees, butterflies and moths.
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The facts
3 sources- Type
- Shrub
- Sun
- Full sun to part shade (3–6 hrs of direct sun)
- Water
- Low
- Height
- 0.5–1 ft
- Spread
- 1 ft
- Bloom
- May–Oct · yellow
- Foliage
- Evergreen
- Soil
- Takes caliche · recorded on calcareous, caliche, dry, gravelly, limestone, sand
- Deer
- High — deer rarely browse it
- Wildlife
- Supports bees, butterflies and moths
Where it grows
Recorded in these EPA Level IV ecoregions in the Austin and Hill Country launch area:
Can you buy it?
Also grows here — hard to find. Native and recorded growing in Central Texas, but not on the grower stock lists we read. Sourcing varies: some are stocked widely, others you will have to hunt for.
also grows from seed It starts readily from seed, so a packet from a native-seed supplier, or seed collected with permission, is often the easiest way to get a plant no nursery pots.