When do short-day plants flower?

Question

When do short-day plants flower?

Answer 1

typically in the fall.

Answer 2

A short day plant is a plant that cannot flower under the long days of summer. Short day plants typically flower in the fall of the year. These plants require a certain number of hours of darkness in each 24 hour period (a short daylength) before floral development can begin. Plants use the phytochrome system to sense daylength or photoperiod.

Examples of short day plants

Chrysanthemum

Coffee,

Poinsettia

Strawberry

Tobacco, var. Maryland Mammouth

Common duckweed, Lemna minor

Cocklebur (Xanthium sp.)

Maize - tropical cultivars only - others are day neutral plants