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Godetia is a spring blooming annual flower. It is native to western North America, from British Colombia down to California. Many people consider this easy to grow flower as a wildflower.
Godetia grandiflora, Clarkia grandiflora, Clarkia amoena
Plants of Home and Garden ...
Godetia
Godetias are valuable for summer bedding or pot work under glass, as well as cutting. For outdoor cultivation seed should be sown in a warm sunny position about March - or October, in gentle heat, for indoor work.
Godetia Amoena
Farewell-to-spring
Special thanks to Pierre Guertin for assistance with identification.
Species of Oenothera, Epilobium, and Godetia, among others, are native to America; some are cultivated. Evening primroses (species of Oenothera and some other similar species) range from North America to Patagonia.
They include gaillardia, gazania (some flower all year), gerbera, geraniums, gladioli, globe amaranth, globe gilia, godetia, gypsofila, hibiscus (variegated and other, as bushes or hedges), hollyhock, honeysuckle, hydrangeas, ...
Godetia Duchess of Albany, Prince of Wales, Fairy Queen, Brilliant, grandiflora maculata, Whitneyi, Duke of Fife, rubicunda splendens.
Helipterum corymbiflorum.
Iberis affinis.
Kaulfussia amelloides atroviolacea, and a. kermesina.
One preseeded garden might include cornflowers, daisies, baby's breath, candytuft, sweet William, calendulas, godetia, stock, annual phlox, and black-eyed Susan, for example.
Important Info : Mrs. Francis King, one of the founders of the Garden Club of America regarded Clarkias and Godetias as a graceful and remarkably pretty annual.
How to Grow this Plant:
Characteristics ...
Ideal for use as cut flowers. Clarkia may also be known as Godetia. On excessively nutritious soils Clarkia amoena Grace Series will probably produce too much foliage at the expense of flowers.
 See also: Clarkia, May, Pink, Green, Clematis
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