Heartleaf Golden-Alexanders
Zizia aptera
Yellow flowers from April into May, worked by mining bees and masked bees. Black Swallowtail caterpillars feed on its leaves. It grows wild in 3 of Florida’s 67 counties.
- Light
- Part shade to full sun
- Soil
- Dry to moist soil
- Size
- 2 ft to 3 ft tall, 1.2 ft wide
- Flowers
- Yellow, Apr to May
- Leaves
- Deciduous
- Roots
- A clump of fibrous roots
- Kind
- Wildflower
At its grown size
in flowerfruit or seedfall colorbare for winter
What it feeds
- Butterflies
- Host plant for the Black Swallowtail
- Caterpillars
- 2 kinds of caterpillars
- Bees
- 10 kinds of native bees
- On its flowers
- Mining bee (Andrena ziziae), Masked bee (Hylaeus mesillae), Mining bee (Andrena milwaukeensis), Masked bee (Hylaeus modestus)
Grows well with
New Jersey Tea
Bluestem Goldenrod
Robin's-plantain
Calico Aster
Small's Ragwort
Narrowleaf Sundrops
Whorled Milkweed
Black-eyed SusanFacts from the Quercus record for Zizia aptera.