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Schizanthus pinnatus
Also called Poor Man's Orchid, Butterfly Flower
Schizanthus pinnatus is a species of annual or biennial flowering plant from Chile, grown for its showy, orchid-like flowers. Like other Schizanthus, it is grown mainly as a cool-season bedding or pot plant, and it prefers mild conditions that are not too hot.
Schizanthus pinnatus, called butterfly flower or poor man's orchid, names it shares with other members of its genus, is a species of flowering plant in the nightshade family, Solanaceae. It is native to Chile and naturalized elsewhere. It has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit as an ornamental.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Schizanthus pinnatus 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.
