Heliopsis helianthoides (Ox Eye Sunflower or False Sunflower)
grows 3-6 ft. tall
full sun to part sun
dry to medium soils
yellow flowers mainly in July-Sept.
benefits bumblebees, solitary bees, butterflies/moths, wasps, and beetles
host plant for Rigid Sunflower Borer (Papaipema rigida)
natural habitat: open forests, woodland clearings, meadows, roadsides. Common in the mountains; infrequent in the Piedmont
associated insects: crescent butterflies, common ringlet butterfly, sinuous bee fly, ground beetles, soldier beetles, syrphid flies, leafcutter bees, long-horned bees, bumble bees, green sweat bees, small carpenter bees, cuckoo bees, clearwing moths, camouflaged loopers, moth caterpillar flowerhead borers, braconid wasps
grows 3-6 ft. tall
full sun to part sun
dry to medium soils
yellow flowers mainly in July-Sept.
benefits bumblebees, solitary bees, butterflies/moths, wasps, and beetles
host plant for Rigid Sunflower Borer (Papaipema rigida)
natural habitat: open forests, woodland clearings, meadows, roadsides. Common in the mountains; infrequent in the Piedmont
associated insects: crescent butterflies, common ringlet butterfly, sinuous bee fly, ground beetles, soldier beetles, syrphid flies, leafcutter bees, long-horned bees, bumble bees, green sweat bees, small carpenter bees, cuckoo bees, clearwing moths, camouflaged loopers, moth caterpillar flowerhead borers, braconid wasps
grows 3-6 ft. tall
full sun to part sun
dry to medium soils
yellow flowers mainly in July-Sept.
benefits bumblebees, solitary bees, butterflies/moths, wasps, and beetles
host plant for Rigid Sunflower Borer (Papaipema rigida)
natural habitat: open forests, woodland clearings, meadows, roadsides. Common in the mountains; infrequent in the Piedmont
associated insects: crescent butterflies, common ringlet butterfly, sinuous bee fly, ground beetles, soldier beetles, syrphid flies, leafcutter bees, long-horned bees, bumble bees, green sweat bees, small carpenter bees, cuckoo bees, clearwing moths, camouflaged loopers, moth caterpillar flowerhead borers, braconid wasps
