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Clarkia amoena
Also called Godetia, Satin Flower
Farewell to spring is a showy annual wildflower from western North America, grown in gardens for its pink to lavender blooms in late spring and early summer. It is a cool-season plant that is easy to grow from seed in sun.
Clarkia amoena, commonly known as farewell to spring, godetia, or satin flower, is a species of flowering plant in the family Onagraceae. It is native to western North America. It is found in coastal hills and mountains from British Columbia south to the San Francisco Bay Area of California.
This annual herb produces showy pink to lavender flowers and is known for its late spring to early summer blooming period. The species was formerly classified in the genus Godetia, and is still sometimes referred to by the synonym Godetia amoena.
Farewell to spring is commonly cultivated as a garden plant, and cultivated varieties are known.
It is a cool season plant and will tolerate temperatures below 0 °C (32 °F) in gardens or greenhouses. It flowers faster under long day conditions. The plants grow best with minimal fertilizer. Popular cultivars introduced in the 1980s include cut flower (tall; 'Grace') and potted plant (short; 'Satin') types.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Clarkia amoena by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
