The Main Plant entry for Platycodons (Platycodon) - Garden.org

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Plant Habit:	Herb/Forb
Life cycle:	Perennial
Sun Requirements:	Full Sun to Partial Shade
Flowers:	Showy
Flower Time:	Summer
Underground structures:	Taproot
Uses:	Cut Flower
Wildlife Attractant:	Bees Butterflies

Common names

Balloon Flower

Photo Gallery

Location: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Date: 2023-07-16
Platycodon grandiflorus 'Kamachi'

Uploaded by deangreen

Location: Tampa, FL
Date: 2023-09-09

Uploaded by Floridian

Location: My front garden in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Date: Third week of July 2013
3 stages of bloom

Uploaded by jenniferatemple

Location: Tampa, FL
Date: 2023-09-09

Uploaded by Floridian

Location: Tampa, FL
Date: 2023-09-08

Uploaded by Floridian

Location: Gulf Coast
Date: 2019-07-17

Uploaded by hiyall

Location: Heathcote Ontario Canada
Date: 2010 August
Platycodon sp seedpod

Uploaded by Permastake

Location: central Illinois
Date: 2014-09-30

Uploaded by jmorth

Location: My Garden, Ontario, Canada
Date: 2018-08-31
Platycodon is a late summer blooming perennial that self-seeds re

Uploaded by touchofsky

Location: central Illinois
Date: 2014-09-28

Uploaded by jmorth

Uploaded by Hazelcrestmikeb

Uploaded by Hazelcrestmikeb

Location: Apple Valley MN
Date: 2018-05-19

Uploaded by crawgarden

Location: Concord, NC zone 7
Date: 2016-06-05

Uploaded by Hemophobic

Date: 2019-06-03

Uploaded by jon

Location: central Illinois
Date: 2013-07-25

Uploaded by jmorth

Uploaded by gemini_sage

Uploaded by gemini_sage

Location: Concord, NC zone 7
Date: 2016-08-09

Uploaded by Hemophobic

Location: Temple, Texas
Date: 2019-04-28
2nd season come back (pre-blooms)

Uploaded by Peggy8b

Location: Quad Cities Botanical Garden, Rock Island, Il.
Date: 2012-07-02

Uploaded by jmorth

Location: my garden
Date: Sept 2015

Uploaded by piksihk

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