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Zinnia elegans Jacq.

Synonyms

Crassina elegans, Crassina linearis, Zinnia australis, Zinnia linearis, Zinnia violacea

Common names

Common zinnia

Extract from Wikipedia article

Zinnia elegans, known as youth-and-age, common zinnia or elegant zinnia, an annual flowering plant of the genus Zinnia, is one of the best known zinnias. It is native to Mexico but grown as an ornamental in many places and naturalised in several places including scattered locations in South and Central America, the West Indies, the United States, Australia, and Italy.

Common zinnia flowers (Zinnia elegans) in Dahl Al Hamam Park at Al Markhiya Street. Doha, Qatar, May 30, 2016
Al Markhiya St, Doha, Qatar

Orange zinnia flower (Zinnia elegans) in Dahl Al Hamam Park at Al Markhiya Street. Doha, Qatar, May 30, 2016
Al Markhiya St, Doha, Qatar

Orange zinnia flowers (Zinnia elegans) in Dahl Al Hamam Park at Al Markhiya Street. Doha, Qatar, May 30, 2016
Al Markhiya St, Doha, Qatar

Links

• Flora of Qatar.
• Unknown plants or plants without names.
• Duplicate and extra pictures of plants.
• Earlier version of collection of plants.
• Other collections of pictures from Qatar: Lizards of Qatar, Cats of Qatar, Camels of Qatar, and Fish of Qatar.
• Picture archives.
• Home page of A. Sergeev.

Outside links

• Zinnia elegans, Wikipedia article
• Zinnia elegans from www.catalogueoflife.org
• Ekhlas M. M. Abdel Bary, The Flora of Qatar, Volume I: The Dicotyledons. Doha 2012
• Flora of Qatar, Volume II: The Monocotyledons
• Illustrated Checklist of the Flora of Qatar. John Norton et al. 2009
• Qatar eNature. Flora
• Ali Al-Rawi, Flowering plants of Kuwait, 1985
• Plants of Kuwait
• Flora of Saudi Arabia, Al-Qassim Region
• Flora of Eastern Saudi Arabia by Rain and Dust at Flickr
• Plants of South-Western Morocco
• Pictures from Qatar (Flickr/cpmkutty)
• Arabian plants by Gary Brown
• Flora of Israel

How the web page was created

• A list of plants with their common names was written using online sources and books.
• Web pages were written by a program consisting of several scripts.
• Full names, synonyms, and classification of plants were found online from catalogueoflife.org and theplantlist.org using a script.
• Pictures of plants were selected from a database using a script.
• This web page was written using a script.

Acknowledgements

QNHG (Qatar Natural History Group) and associated people, for a possibility to participate in their field excursions and to learn about local nature.