White Flowering Annuals
Below you will find a list of Annuals from our plant database that are white flowering. If you click on any of the photos, you will see a Virtual Plant Tag that may contain plant descriptions, usage suggestions and a link to where you can buy that plant for your landscaping.
The annuals, also commonly referred to as bedding plants, can be grown directly in the ground, in containers for patios and decks or in hanging baskets. Annuals, with their blast of color, are used for edging, mass of color, filling in spots between established shrubs, trees and evergreens and as groundcovers. Mixed containers are in vogue, often a blend of annuals, perennials, ornamental grasses and even tropicals to take the urn, window box or decorative planter through the spring, summer, fall until frost. Most of these annuals grow well with average soil moisture and partial or full sun, though some can take full shade giving the home gardener more options for use in the landscape.
Many of the plants we use in the United States as bedding plant annuals are actual tropical in origin. Some of these beautiful plants come to us from areas in Africa, Southeast Asia, Australia, South America and the Mediterranean region. Frequently, plants from the wild are then selected and hybridized for larger blooms, better bloom color, longer bloom time, improved disease resistance and even better foliage displays.
Some bedding plants with white flowers are native plants, which are more naturally insect resistant, salt tolerant and have natural disease resistance. Mealy-cup Sage or Salvia farinacea, Texas Sage or Salvia greggii and Clump Verbena or Rose Vervain, Verbena canadensis and their cultivars deserve more use as natives. These plants are parents of many of today's hybrids.
The most well-known annuals with white blooms are: African Daisy, Angelonia or Summer Snapdragon, Bacopa, Begonias, Candytuft, Cosmos, Cup and Saucer, Dianthus, Egyptian Star Cluster, Flowering Tobacco, Geranium (Pelargonium), Hibiscus and Mallows, Impatiens or Busy Lizzie, Lantana, Moon Flower, Morning Glory, Nemesia or Paintbox, New Guinea Impatiens, Pansy, Periwinkle or Vinca, Petunias, Phlox, Pinks, Sage or Salvia, Stock, Sweet William, Verbena and Zinnia.
Annuals with white flowers add a brightness and softness to the landscape and works with cool colors of purple, blue and pink but also with warm colors of red, magenta, fuchsia and yellow. Bedding plants with white blooms look great with green and white leaves of variegated plants.
Flowering annuals by their very nature are great at attracting butterflies and birds, particularly hummingbirds.