- Name: Seafoam - Other Common Names: Sea Foam / Zeechium - Scientific Name: Teloxys Aristata - Color: Green To Rose Pink To Maroon To Brown - Plant Seeds: Outdoors After Frost / Indoors Weeks Before Last Frost - Bloom Time: Mid Summer - Fall - Hardiness Zone: Annual - Plant Height: 6 - 12" - Plant Spacing: 9 - 12" - Light Requirements: Sun - Part Shade - Soil Water Preferences: Average - Quantity: 50 Seeds - Other: Seafoam Is Appropriately Named, Having Tons Of Tiny Little Branches So Intricate They Look Like Their Namesake. This Plant Hails From The Gobi Desert, ?A Vast Arid Region In Northern China And Southern Mongolia?, So Is Well Adapted To Handle Periods Of Drought, The Plants Grow Best In Sandy, Well-Drained Soil. The Plants Grow Slowly At First, But Will Really Take Off Grow Much More Quickly Once They Are Established. They Are An Annual, But Will Reseed Themselves For New Plants The Following Year If The Seeds Are Allowed To Fall To The Ground.