Flower/
Fruit: 2" showy flowers (white,
pink, crimson, purple, blue) open in the morning and last a few
hours; flowers mid summer to fall
Comments:
A naturalized weed in cultivated
and fallow fields; prefers a sandy, poor soil; sometimes sold as
I. nil; self seeds and can become invasive
Cultivars:
Alba (white); Madame Ann (red);
Violacea (double, purple); Tricolor (blue striped with red and white);
Kermesiana (scarlet); Flero-pleno (double, bluish-white streaked
with purple); Dickensonii (blue)
