Bloom Time
Jun, Jul, Aug
Plant Type
Annual, Ground Cover, Poisonous
Lifespan
Annual, Perennial
Flower
Axillary, solitary, rosy-pink to mauve to reddish, or white. The calyx is green, tube slender, lobes subulate. Corolla is salverform, bearing 5 glands apically on the tube, lobes often with prominent eyespot at the throat. The ovary is two-chambered, splitting apart in fruit. It blooms from June until frost.
Fruit
fruits long, slender, often paired. Elongate follicles within one persisting calyx.
Butterflies
Pollinators
Order
Gentianales
Family
Apocynaceae
Genus
Catharanthus
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