Intro: Erect, rhizomatous perennial of dry woodlands, forests, barrens, clearings, and road banks.

Stems: Stems branched above, dark greenish-purple, often with a whitish coating, and smooth.

Leaves: Leaves mostly opposite, long-petiolate, lance-shaped, 3-6 in. long, 3-veined, toothed but entire near the base, thin, rough-hairy above, resin-dotted and usually short-hairy beneath.

Inforescence:

Flowers: Composite flowers (heads) numerous on long slender stalks; heads 1-1 1/2 in. wide, consisting of 5-8 yellow ray florets encircling a center disk of darker yellow, tubular florets. Overlapping, green, pointed bracts surround the base of each head.

Fruits: Fruit a dark brown to blackish achene.

Comments:

Height: 2-6 1/2 ft. (occasionally taller)

plant sale text: This sunflower grows in well-drained soils in full sun to part shade. It will form small colonies, so plant it in a place where you have room for it to spread. Attracts pollinators, butterflies and birds.

bloom table text:

description: Erect, rhizomatous perennial of dry woodlands, forests, barrens, clearings, and road banks.

stems: Stems branched above, dark greenish-purple, often with a whitish coating, and smooth.

leaves: Leaves mostly opposite, long-petiolate, lance-shaped, 3-6 in. long, 3-veined, toothed but entire near the base, thin, rough-hairy above, resin-dotted and usually short-hairy beneath.

inflorescence:

flowers: Composite flowers (heads) numerous on long slender stalks; heads 1-1 1/2 in. wide, consisting of 5-8 yellow ray florets encircling a center disk of darker yellow, tubular florets. Overlapping, green, pointed bracts surround the base of each head.

fruits: Fruit a dark brown to blackish achene.

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native range: eastern United States