Annuals

AGERATUM-VIOLA
Botanical Name
Ageratum mexicanum
Common Name
Ageratum
Connecting the Scientific Name with the
Common Name
Ageratum and Ageratum
DESCRIPTION
Leaves are somewhat heart shaped,
bright green, pubescent
Flower head is fluffy - not over 1/2 inch
in diameter
Cottony flowers in clusters held above
foliage.
Mounding habit
DESCRIPTION
Flower is a composite head
Color blue or white
EXPOSURE
Sun
Semi shade
Foliage Description
Arrangement: Opposite
Composition: Simple
Margin: Serrated
FLOWER Description
Summer
White
Purple - blue
CLASSIFICATION
Annual
USE
Border
BOTANICAL NAME
BEGONIA X SEMPERFLORENS-
CULTORUM
COMMON NAME
Wax Begonia
Connecting the Scientific Name with the
Common Name
Begonia and Begonia
DESCRIPTION
Waxy rounded leaves upright form,
rounded flowers with yellow centers
Heavy bloomers
Fibrous rooted
Cultivars - many with varying foliage,
flower, and growth habits
EXPOSURE
Shade
Leaf Description
Arrangement-Alternate
Composition-Simple
Margin-Serrated and Hairy
FLOWER
Summer - autumn
Pink, red or white
CLASSIFICATION
Annual- Bedding plant
USE
House plant
Bedding plant
Planted in masses
BOTANICAL NAME
COLEUS X HYBRIDUS or
SOLONOSTEMON SCUTELLAROIDES
COMMON NAME
Coleus
Connecting the Scientific Name with the
Common Name
Coleus and Coleus
DESCRIPTION
Plant has square stems
Distinctive and brilliantly colored
foliage.
Leaves have contrasting colors
Whorled
EXPOSURE
Semi Shade
Leaf Description
Arrangement-Whorled
Composition- Simple
Margin- Varies
FLOWER
Summer
Purple spike (not attractive)
CLASSIFICATION
Annual- Bedding plant
USE
House plant
Bedding plant
Shade Gardens
BOTANICAL NAME
IMPATIENS
COMMON NAME
Impatiens Cultivars and Hybrids
Connecting the Scientific Name with the
Common Name
Impatiens and Impatiens
DESCRIPTION
Succulent stem
Flower has a spur
‘New Guinea Hybrids’
Masses of 1” blooms in various colors
Cover bright green foliage
EXPOSURE
Shade
Leaf Description
Arrangement- Opposite
Composition- Simple
Margin- Slightly serrated
FLOWER
Single and double
Pink and white
CLASSIFICATION
Annual- Bedding plant
USE
Bedding Plant
Container Plant
BOTANICAL NAME
PELARGONIUM X HORTORUM
COMMON NAME
Geranium
Connecting the Scientific Name with the
Common Name
I have no good way to remember this
plant name
DESCRIPTION
Rounded, softly pubescent, scalloped
leaves,
Clusters of flowers on erect stems
above foliage
EXPOSURE
Semi Shade
FLOWER
An umbel
Summer
Red, white, salmon, pink
Leaf Description
Arrangement: Opposite
Composition: Simple
CLASSIFICATION
Annual-Bedding plant
USE
House plant
Bedding or container plant
BOTANICAL NAME

PELARGONIUM PELTATUM
COMMON NAME
Ivy Leaf Geranium
Connecting the Scientific Name with the
Common Name
You get pelted with homework in an Ivy
league school
DESCRIPTION
A trailing geranium, peltate leaves, 5
angled or lobed, sometimes zoned with
red; ivy shaped
EXPOSURE
Sun
Part shade
FLOWER
An umbel
White, pink, red, and shades thereof
Leaf Description
Arrangement: Alternate
Composition: Simple
Margin: Scalloped
CLASSIFICATION
Annual
USE
Hanging baskets
Containers
BOTANICAL NAME
SALVIA SPLENDENS
COMMON NAME
Salvia
Connecting the Scientific Name with the
Common Name
Salvia and Salvia
DESCRIPTION
Many different heights and colors of
flowers
Oval dark green leaves sturdy plant on
spikes above foliage
EXPOSURE
Sun
CLASSIFICATION
Bedding Plant
Annual
Leaf Description
Arrangement: Opposite
Composition: Simple
Margin: Serrated
FLOWER
Summer
Red, white, orange, maroon and bi-
color
USE
Bedding plant
Blooms early summer to frost
Tolerant of most soils
Excellent in mass plantings
BOTANICAL NAME

TAGETES SPECIES
COMMON NAME
African Marigold
Connecting the Scientific Name with the
Common Name
Mari plays tag!
DESCRIPTION
Highly aromatic
Deeply cut lead fern like
Thick hollow stemmed
EXPOSURE
Sun
Leaf Description
Arrangement: Opposite
Composition: compound
Margin: Deeply serrated
CLASSIFICATION
Annual- Bedding Plant
FLOWER
Spring to frost
Yellow, orange, white
USE
Annual-Bedding plant
BOTANICAL NAME
VIOLA X WITTROCKIANA
COMMON NAME
Pansy
Connecting the Scientific Name with the
Common Name
If you play the Viola you are a Pansy
Description
Leaves are oval and slightly scalloped,
medium to dark green
Flowers are long stems above foliage
EXPOSURE
Semi Shade
FLOWER
Fall/Winter
May or may not have eyes
Many colors
5 petals - 4 at top and 1 at bottom
CLASSIFICATION
Annual-Bedding Plant
USE
Border