Autumn Sneezeweed - Prairie Native, Wetlands, (Helenium autumnale), aster family

Members of the Helenium family do not cause sneezing out in your garden. Read on to learn why it is called sneezeweed. It is great plant for bees, butterflies and other beneficials in your garden. It is found along streams, marshy areas and blues around the same time as Blue Vervain and can make a lovely contrast. Sneezeweed naturalizes well and is a great food source for birds when it goes to seed. Deer and rabbits leave this plant alone as the leaves are very bitte. 

Sneezeweed was dried and crushed to be add to snuff and caused some sneezing that way. Additionally ghosthunters would blow the dried flowers and leaves to find ghosts as it was rumored to cause sneezing in the supernatural. 

Characteristics: 

• Perennial and hardy to zone 3
• Plants grow to 3 to 5 feet tall
• Topped with yellow flowers
• Blooms throughout the summer into mid-fall
• Serves as an important late-season (after frost) nectar source for a variety of butterflies

Sizing 

• 1/16 oz sows 150 sq ft
• 1 oz sows 3000 sq ft
• 1lb sows an acre

Instructions - Sow seeds outside anytime of year. It is a very easy one to start in pots as well if you'd like. 

Germination 14-35 days

Plant 24" apart

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