Purplehead Sneezeweed
Helenium flexuosum
Purple flowers from May into August, worked by ligated furrow bees and long-horned bees. It grows wild in 66 of Virginia’s 133 counties.
- Light
- Full sun
- Soil
- Moist to wet soil
- Size
- 2 ft to 3 ft tall, 1.5 ft wide
- Flowers
- Purple, May to Aug
- 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
Buttonbush
Facts from the Quercus record for Helenium flexuosum.