Helenium autumnale wild strawberry and long narrow leaves provide

and long narrow leaves provide visual variety

Valuable for erosion control and for nitrogen-fixing

Blooms mid-spring

Often called Gray Goldenrod because of the gray hue to its hair-covered stems

and is a larval host plant of the Silvery Checkerspot butterfly and the Pearl Crescent butterfly

Helenium autumnale wild strawberry and long narrow leaves provideAdd color to late summer and fall with the solid yellow, daisy like flowers of Sneezeweed, which grows well in sunny areas with moist soils. Like its cousin, Purple Headed Sneezeweed, it its pollen is carried by insects, not wind, so it does not trigger allergies! A host to the smallest North American butterfly, Dainty Sulphur, makes it even more special.