Annuals are typically planted in the spring and grow, bloom, and die all within a single growing season with the goal to produce seeds for future plants and flowers.
Wheat stalks clustered in field with curved seedheads
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Mullein plant with tall spikes with small yellow flowers below hairy leaves
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Cockscomb plant with bright red comb-like flowers on stem with lance-like leaves in sunlight
How to Grow and Care for Cockscomb
Love-lies-bleeding plant with bright green leaves and small fuchsia-colored tassel-like flowers
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Sweet annie plant with bright green lacy leaves on thin stems closeup
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Amaranthus plants mixed with feathery flowerheads and different colors
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dusty miller
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Purple waffle plant with gray-green and veined leaves next to pebble stones
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closeup of caladium leaves
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Amaranth plant with small burgundy flowers on small tassels in front of silvery-green leaves
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closeup of purple shamrock
How to Grow and Care for Purple Shamrock (False Shamrock)
love in a mist flower
How to Grow and Care for Love-in-a-Mist
variegated geranium flowers
Growing and Caring for Regal Geraniums
canna lily
How to Grow Tropical Cannas Anywhere
Climbing flowers and vines on a trellis
10 Best Annual Flowering Vines for Your Garden
annual vinca flowers
How to Grow Annual Vinca
Luffa plant with rolled fibers on dark green leaves
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Milk thistle with purple flower and marbled leaves
Identification and Removal of the Invasive Milk Thistle
Jewelweed plant with small orange and red flowers on thin stems surrounded by large leaves
How to Grow and Care for Jewelweed
millet
Millet Plant Profile
White Lace Flower (Orlaya grandiflora) in a meadow
How to Grow and Care for White Lace Flower
Flax flowers with light blue petals closeup
How to Grow and Care for Flax Flowers
Basket flower with bright purple thistle-like petals with cream center and buds closeup
How to Grow and Care for Basket Flower
Flax plant with blue flowers closeup
How to Grow and Care for Flax Plants
Chia herb plant with tall stalk and tiny purple flowers on top
How to Grow Chia Seeds
Scarlet tassel flowers with scarlet-orange pompon petals on thin stems
Scarlet Tassel Flower Plant Profile
Popcorn plant growing outdoors
How to Grow and Care for Popcorn Plants
Blow-wives (Achyrachaena mollis) wildflowers
How to Grow and Care for the Blow Wives Wildflower
Silene viscaria plants with small pink flowers on thin stems and thin foliage surrounding
Viscaria Plant Profile
Phlox drummondii with pink flowers closeup
Phlox Drummondii Plant Profile
Heliotropes arborescens plant with purple flowers
How to Grow and Care for Heliotropes
Quinoa plant stem with tiny flower and seed clusters
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Pineapple lily with white flowers closeup
Pineapple Lilies Bring a Tropical Feel to Gardens
Nierembergia plant with small purple saucer-like flowers and yellow centers closeup
Nierembergia Plant Profile
creeping zinnia
Creeping Zinnia: Plant Care & Growing Guide
wheatgrass growing indoors in a pot
How to Grow Wheatgrass in 8 Easy Steps
Peanut plant with peanuts on ends of vines
How to Grow and Care for Peanut Plants
watering can and person standing in front of flowers
Just How Much Water do Annual Flowers Need?
Purple annual flowers blooming and pinching old flowers closeup
How Do You Keep Annual Flowers Blooming All Summer?
fuchsia celosia
Celosia Flowers May Be the Strangest Annual in the Garden
Zinnia elegans
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Papyrus plants with clumps of umbrella-like grassy rays hanging over water
How to Grow Papyrus in Container Gardens
Blue ageratum with blue flowers and bees
Consider the Blue Ageratum for a Burst of Color
Dianthus plant with clusters of pink-purple flowers
How Can an Annual be Hardy?
Common poppy field with red and pink flowers and buds in between
How to Grow the Common Poppy (Papaver rhoeas)
Field of mexican marigolds with orange flowers
African Marigold: Plant Care & Growing Guide