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
  • Species Dahlia
  • Dahlia

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Location: RHS Harlow Carr, Yorkshire, UK
Date: 2020-08-22
Location: Botanical Gardens of the State of Georgia...Athens, Ga
Date: 2018-06-07
White Dahlia 020
Location: Loki Schmidt Garten - Botanischer Garten der Universität Hamburg
Date: 2022-09-13
Location: RHS Harlow Carr, Yorkshire, UK
Date: 2019-10-27
Location: all photos from my garden
Date: 2014-06-30

Date: c. 1840
illustration of Dahlia merckii as D. glabrata by Miss Drake from

photo credit: Mark Twyning
Location: My back yard
Date: 2012

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