Data specific to Dahlias (Edit)
Size: Medium (B): over 6 to 8 inches in diameter.
Form: Formal Decorative (FD)
Color: Bicolor (BI)
Purple (PR)
Year Introduced: 1986
Country of Origin: United States
Hybridizer or Originator: Swan Island
ADS Classification Code: 2015

General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Flowers: Showy
Propagation: Seeds: Will not come true from seed
Propagation: Other methods: Division
Other: Propagate by taking cuttings of newly emerged shoots
Containers: Suitable in 3 gallon or larger

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Common names
  • Dahlia
  • Decorative Dahlia

Photo Gallery
Location: My garden in Warrenville, SC
Date: 2019-10-09
Taken with new iPhone
Location: Dahlia Hill, Midland, Michigan
Date: 2019-08-15
This is a fairly extreme, but not unprecedented, example of a bi-
Location: Dahlia Hill, Midland, Michigan
Date: 2019-08-15
Another anomalous bloom of this red/white bi-color dahlia.  Ideal

Date: 2011-09-20
Courtesy Alpha Dahlias
  • Uploaded by vic
Location: My Yard
Date: 2022-09-20

Photo courtesy of Swan Island Dahlias. Used with permission.
  • Uploaded by Joy
Location: Winlock WA.
Date: July 2016

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