Smooth Oxeye
Heliopsis helianthoides
It grows wild in 39 of Alabama’s 67 counties.
- Light
- Part shade to full sun
- Soil
- Dry to moist soil
- Size
- 4.5 ft to 6 ft tall, 3 ft wide
- Flowers
- Yellow and orange
- Leaves
- Deciduous
- Kind
- Wildflower
At its grown size
in flowerfall colorbare for winter
What it feeds
- Caterpillars
- 2 kinds of caterpillars
- Bees
- 22 kinds of native bees
- On its flowers
- Bicolored striped sweat bee (Agapostemon virescens), Cuckoo bee (Stelis louisae), Resin bee (Paranthidium jugatorium), Cuckoo bee (Triepeolus lunatus)
Grows well with
New England Aster
Swamp Azalea
Sweet Goldenrod
Wrinkle-leaf Goldenrod
Narrowleaf Sunflower
Fragrant Sumac
Calico Aster
Swamp Rosemallow
Facts from the Quercus record for Heliopsis helianthoides.