seeds: Helenium autumnale (fall sneezeweed)
 
Seed Information
 
Seed sowing instructions
A, D = Helenium autumnale seeds should germinate when sown in a warm location. Sow these small seeds on the surface of the soil.
You can find more information about how to sow native seeds HERE.
 
Includes a brochure with instructions on how to sow native seeds.
 
Plant information
 
"Helenium autumnale is a North American species of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae. Common names include common sneezeweed and large-flowered sneezeweed.
 
Common sneezeweed is a perennial herb up to 130 cm (51+1⁄3 in; 4+1⁄3 ft) tall. In late summer and fall, one plant can produce as many as 100 yellow flower heads in a branching array. Each head has 11–21 ray florets surrounding sometimes as many as 800 disc florets. Leaves are dark green, alternate, and lance-shaped. The Latin specific epithet autumnale is in reference to the plant's autumn flowering.
 
It grows in moist, open areas along streams and ponds as well as wet meadows.
 
The plant owes its name to the use of its dried leaves in snuff, the inhaling of which causes sneezing."
 
info from Wikipedia
 
photo by Agnieszka Kwiecien