Hardiness zones
Sunset All, in Phoenix used exclusively as a cool season annual
USDA All

Landscape Use: Bedding plant, color

Form & Character: Evergreen herbaceous perennial grown as annual, formal, gay, bright, cheery

Growth Habit: Short and clumping to 6-8" in height with similar spread.

Foliage/texture: Scalloped to crenate green leaves, medium

Flowers & fruits: Single to multiple colored open-faced flowers. Nearly every color imaginable including a new all-white flower selection. F1 and F2 hybrids produce largest flowers, 2-3" across.

Seasonal color: Winter in Phoenix

Temperature: Ideal growing condition are from 40 to 65^oF, though incredibly cold hardy to -10^oF with no frozen ground.

Light: Full sun for best flowering. Partial shade prolongs plant viability into late spring, but reduces flower numbers.

Soil: Well drained garden soil, copious organic matter for best performance

Watering: Regular

Pruning: None

Propagation: Seed

Disease and pests: Fungal root rot if soil is poorly drained, snails

Additional comments: Fabulous winter annual planted out in mid October and to be removed by April. Plant 8" to 12" apart in mass for best effect. Don't plant out before fall temperatures in Phoenix lower consistently below 85^oF! First recorded use as garden flower was in 1629. One of most popular bedding plant accounting for an estimated 3.5% of all US plants sales. Viola cornuta (Johnny jump up) is a close relative to pansy that is native to the native to Spain and the Pyrenees Mountains east to the Balkan mountains in Bulgaria.