Common Sneezeweed
Helenium autumnale
Yellow and orange flowers from August into October, worked by ligated furrow bees and long-horned bees. It grows wild in 54 of Alabama’s 67 counties.
- Light
- Part shade to full sun
- Soil
- Moist to wet soil
- Size
- 4 ft to 5 ft tall, 2.5 ft wide
- Flowers
- Yellow and orange, Aug to Oct
- Leaves
- Deciduous
- Roots
- Roots; wants 6 in of soil
- Kind
- Wildflower
At its grown size
in flowerfall colorbare for winter
What it feeds
- Caterpillars
- 6 kinds of caterpillars
- Bees
- 48 kinds of native bees
- On its flowers
- Ligated furrow bee (Halictus ligatus), Long-horned bee (Epimelissodes petulcus), Long-horned bee (Xenoglossodes donatus), Nomia bee (Dieunomia bolliana)
Grows well with
Red Chokeberry
Fringed Sedge
Virginia Iris
Carolina Phlox
Lyreleaf Sage
Sweet Woodreed
Northern Spider-lily
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Facts from the Quercus record for Helenium autumnale.