Plant Habit: | Herb/Forb |
Life cycle: | Perennial |
Sun Requirements: | Full Sun Full Sun to Partial Shade |
Water Preferences: | Mesic |
Soil pH Preferences: | Slightly acid (6.1 – 6.5) Neutral (6.6 – 7.3) Slightly alkaline (7.4 – 7.8) |
Minimum cold hardiness: | Zone 3 -40 °C (-40 °F) to -37.2 °C (-35) |
Maximum recommended zone: | Zone 9b |
Plant Height: | 12 - 48 inches |
Plant Spread: | 12 - 24 inches |
Fruit: | Edible to birds |
Fruiting Time: | Fall |
Flowers: | Showy |
Flower Color: | Yellow |
Bloom Size: | 1"-2" |
Flower Time: | Summer Late summer or early fall |
Uses: | Will Naturalize |
Edible Parts: | Fruit |
Wildlife Attractant: | Bees Birds Butterflies |
Resistances: | Humidity tolerant Drought tolerant |
Miscellaneous: | Tolerates poor soil |
Chillybean | On December 11, 2015 | Harvested Collected seeds |
MrsBinWY | On July 4, 2020 | Transplanted 3 into back yard behind the big iron pot; 1 returned in 2021 |
MrsBinWY | On June 5, 2020 | Seeds germinated 3 |
MrsBinWY | On January 1, 2020 | Seeds sown 16 seeds from janinilulu's 2019G in milk jug - try a couple weeks warm & put outside if no activity. Moved outside on 2-2-20. |
MrsBinWY | On June 10, 2018 | Potted up 3 pots w/2 in each pot - all appear to be struggling |
MrsBinWY | On February 25, 2018 | Seeds sown milk jug; back patio; 25 seeds from molanic |
MrsBinWY | On July 8, 2017 | Potted up 3 - seem to be struggling in the milk jug (too dry/too wet?) (All eventually failed. Try again.) |
MrsBinWY | On March 10, 2017 | Seeds sown coffee filter in baggie in fridge for 30 days, little bit of H2O2, 16 seeds from molanic; jugged 4-15-17 |
Retro67 | On April 21, 2024 | Seeds sown Seeded outside chicken coop with sunchokes |
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How a Bird Helped Me by Chillybean | Dec 11, 2015 12:50 PM | 0 |