Photo credit
Eric in SF, CC BY-SA 3.0, Original photo
Care
- Optional bloom tip: Removing spent flowers can encourage more blooms.
Purplehead Sneezeweed
Helenium flexuosum
Listed for containersIts plant group feeds 14 kinds of specialist bees
- Flower color
- Brown/copper or purple
- Bloom
- May to August
- Height
- 1–3 feet
- Spread
- 1–2 feet
- Light
- Full sun
- Soil moisture
- Moist to standing water
Typical bloom time. A plant at the store may not be in flower.
- Containers
- Yes, listed for containersListed by Missouri Botanical Garden: Container Gardening with Native Plants
- Container size
- Not recordedMeasure your pot’s depth; we can’t confirm this pot yet.
Native to West Virginia (state-specific source)