Gypsophila elegans

GYPSOPHILA elegans
Baby's Breath

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Type:
Annual

Height: 12-24" (30-60cm)

Flowering Time: Summer

Flower Colour: White

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Botanical Classification:

Class:
Angiospermae (Angiosperms)

Subclass: Dicotyledonae (Dicotyledons)

Superorder: Caryophyllidae (Pinks Superorder)

Order: Caryophyllales (Pinks Order)

Family: Caryophyllaceae (Pinks Family)

Genus: Gypsophila (Gypsophila)

Species: elegans (elegant)

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Gypsophila elegans is a fast-growing annual that provides flowers that are useful as a foil to larger blooms both in the garden and as a cut flower. It reaches a height of about 18" - 2', with glaucous light green leaves and open airy clusters of small white, sometimes veined, flowers with rounded petals.
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Harvesting and Growing from Seed:

Seed Pod
The seedpod is a small ball. Each individual flower produces its own seedpod.

Seed
The seeds are tiny very dark brown beans. There are many seeds in a pod.

Seedling

Seed sowing and Germination
Spring: Seeds sown inside in spring germinated in 7 days.

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	Seed Pod The seedpod is a small ball. Each individual flower produces its own seedpod.
	Seed The seeds are tiny very dark brown beans. There are many seeds in a pod.
	Seedling
Seed sowing and Germination Spring: Seeds sown inside in spring germinated in 7 days.