FREE: 40 Ox-Eye False Sunflower Flower Seeds

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Heliopsis helianthoides, False Sunflower or Oxeye Sunflower, has many 2 to 3 inch golden yellow flowers that are beautiful when used in floral arrangements. Native False Sunflower plants grow 2 to 6 feet tall in light shade to full sun and do best in average, well-drained, moist garden soil. This hardy perennial tolerates drought but increases more rapidly in fertile soil. Ox-eye Sunflowers attract nectar seeking butterflies and birds enjoy the ripe seeds. This is an exceptionally long-blooming flower for the cutting garden. False Sunflower is accented well in a butterfly garden or prairie meadow when planted with coneflowers, blazing stars, Asters, and prairie grasses.

Heliopsis helianthoides, false sunflower, ox-eye sunflower is a versatile plant occurring naturally in prairies and savannas from Ontario and New York to Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota, and south to Missouri, Colorado, and New Mexico. Asteraceae (Aster Family)
Seeds germinate without pretreatment.

Heliopsis = Sun
helianthoides = Resembling a sunflower

Alternate Names

Smooth Oxeye, False Sunflower, Oxeye, Oxeye Daisy, Heliopsis Sunflower

Uses

It is reported that American Indians made a tea from this plant as a cure for various lung ailments.