Although zinnias did not become popular garden plants until late in the nineteenth century, Zinnia pauciflora was grown in eighteenth-century gardens and was sold by Philadelphia nurseryman Bernard McMahon in 1804. This South American annual grows to three of four feet and produces handsome orangish-red flowers throughout the summer. The small but attractive flowers are very different from the improved hybrids now so popular. Plant seeds after the last frost in the spring in a sunny garden site.

Line Drawing from New Britton and Brown Illustrated Flora by H. A. Gleason (1958) zone1, zone2, zone3, zone4, zone5, zone6, zone7, zone8, zone9, zone0