Description
Like the common name implies, this is the perfect sunflower for our open woodland garden. Light yellow flowers (5-7 cm diameter) from mid summer to fall.
It prefers sandy, rocky soils, in part-shaded to sunny locations. On ideal locations it can form large colonies in time.
It is a plant with high wildlife value: beneficial to countless pollinators, host for caterpillars of few butterflies and moths. The seeds are eaten by several types of birds and small mammals.
Perfect companions: Asclepias exaltata, Desmodium nudiflorum, Amphicarpaea bracteata, Taenidia integerrima, Thalictrum dioicum, Uvularia grandiflora…
Germination: cold/moist stratification (2-3 months).
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