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 11 of West Virginia’s 55 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
- 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
Bluestem Goldenrod
New Jersey Tea
Calico Aster
Robin's-plantain
Sweet Goldenrod
Wrinkle-leaf Goldenrod
Black Huckleberry
Small's RagwortFacts from the Quercus record for Zizia aptera.