Attractive to butterflies, Ox-eye Sunflowers are fairly tolerant of drought and partially shady conditions but prefer full sun and moist, well-draining soil conditions.
It is located in dry areas, edges of woods, roadsides, open woods, edges of fields and thickets. It can be found growing in the eastern half of Kansas and Nebraska and statewide in Missouri. It is found growing in association with warm-season grasses of the tallgrass prairie
Alternate Common Names: Early sunflower, Smooth sunflower, False sunflower, Oxeye daisy, Oxeye, Oxeye Sunflower, Heliopsis sunflower, Sunflower Heliopsis.
Forage: Livestock and deer sometimes graze Smooth oxeye.
Grow
Height |
Cold
Tolerance |
Minimum Rainfall |
Planting Rate Acre |
3’-4’ | Good | 19”-24” | 4-6lbs |
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