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Asteraceae
Purplehead sneezeweed
Helenium flexuosum
Also known as Helenium quadridentatum, Purple-head sneezeweed, Helenium seminariense, Helenium
Flowering Plants · Native Plants · Yellow Flowers · Native Wildflower · Pollinator Plant · Fall Blooming · Daisy-Like · Rain Garden · Asteraceae · Perennial · Sneezeweed · Wildlife Garden
Purplehead sneezeweed is a cheerful native wildflower producing bold yellow and purple daisy-like blooms from midsummer through fall. It thrives in moist, average soils in full sun to partial shade and requires very little care once established. An excellent choice for naturalized areas, rain gardens, or pollinator borders, it readily attracts bees and butterflies.
Growing conditions
The details behind the basics
- Daily light
- 5 hours
- Watering
- Water moderately; keep soil evenly moist but well-drained · Every 7-10 days
- Maintenance
- Low
- Soil
- loam
- Soil pH
- 4.5–7.5
- Temperature
- -25°F to 95°F
- Cycle
- Perennial
- Propagation
- Seed
Hardiness
USDA 4b-9b
Form & growth
Mature size and habit
- Mature height
- 10 ft – 30 ft
- Spread
- 15 ft
- Spacing
- 18 in apart
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Root depth
- Medium
- Flowers
- Yellow
- Foliage
- Green · Medium
Ecology & origin
Where it belongs and what it brings
- Native to
- Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Masachusettes, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Nova Scotia, Ohio, Oklahoma
- Attracts
- Bees, Butterflies, Birds
Sources: trefle, usda
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