Common Golden-Alexanders
Zizia aurea
Black Swallowtail caterpillars feed on its leaves. It grows wild in 9 of West Virginia’s 55 counties.
- Light
- Part shade to full sun
- Soil
- Dry to moist soil
- Size
- 1.5 ft to 2 ft tall, 1.5 ft wide
- Flowers
- Yellow
- 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
- 4 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
Robin's-plantain
Bluestem Goldenrod
New Jersey Tea
Calico Aster
Narrowleaf Sundrops
Wild Geranium
Sweet Goldenrod
Wrinkle-leaf GoldenrodFacts from the Quercus record for Zizia aurea.