Light Requirements: full sun/shade
Soil Moisture: medium
Bloom Color: yellow
Bloom Time: July-October
Height: 4-8 ft.
Root Structure: long rhizomes, often creating colonies
Deer Resistant? Yes
Black Walnut tolerant? Yes
Grown from local seed? Yes
Wingstem (Verbesina alternifolia)
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Unknown native status to NY state.
I prefer moist, rich soils, along woodland edges, but I’ll tolerate many conditions.
I am considered of special value to pollinators because of the wide range of bees and wasps I support. I’m also the host plant of the checkerspot butterfly (shown), summer azure butterfly and gold moth.
I have really interesting seeds that look like tiny butterflies.