General Plant Information (Edit)
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Full Sun to Partial Shade
Water Preferences: Mesic
Dry Mesic
Dry
Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 9a -6.7 °C (20 °F) to -3.9 °C (25 °F)
Maximum recommended zone: Zone 11
Plant Height: 30 cm as annual - 90 cm as perennial
Plant Spread: 40 cm as annual - 60 cm as perennial
Leaves: Unusual foliage color
Flowers: Showy
Flower Color: Lavender
Flower Time: Summer
Late summer or early fall
Fall
Uses: Suitable as Annual
Propagation: Seeds: Depth to plant seed: 0.3 cm
Sow in situ
Start indoors
Can handle transplanting
Pollinators: Moths and Butterflies

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Common names
  • Devil's Trumpet
  • Jimsonweed
  • Common Thorn-Apple
Botanical names
  • Accepted: Datura stramonium
  • Synonym: Datura stramonium var. tatula
Also sold as:
  • La Fleur Lilac
  • Lilac le Fleur

Photo Gallery
Location: My zone 3a garden
Date: 2012-05-05
Location: My garden in Belgium
Date: 2009-10-01
Location: All pictures taken in/on my gardens/greenhouse/property
Date: 2019-04-12
Location: z6a, Smith College Botanical Garden
Date: 2012-08-25
Location: My zone 3a garden
Date: 2012-05-02

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