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Spacing: 24-36 in. (60-90 cm) 36-48 in. (90-120 cm)
Hardiness: USDA Zone 4a: to -34.4 °C (-30 °F) USDA Zone 4b: to -31.6 °C (-25 °F) USDA Zone 5a: to -28.8 °C (-20 °F) USDA Zone 5b: to -26.1 °C (-15 °F) USDA Zone 6a: to -23.3 °C (-10 °F) USDA Zone 6b: to -20.5 °C (-5 °F) USDA Zone 7a: to -17.7 °C (0 °F) USDA Zone 7b: to -14.9 °C (5 °F) USDA Zone 8a: to -12.2 °C (10 °F) USDA Zone 8b: to -9.4 °C (15 °F)
Other details: Average Water Needs; Water regularly; do not overwater
Soil pH requirements: 6.1 to 6.5 (mildly acidic) 6.6 to 7.5 (neutral) 7.6 to 7.8 (mildly alkaline)
Patent Information: Non-patented
Propagation Methods: By dividing the rootball By dividing rhizomes, tubers, corms or bulbs (including offsets) From seed; direct sow outdoors in fall From seed; winter sow in vented containers, coldframe or unheated greenhouse From seed; sow indoors before last frost From seed; direct sow after last frost
Seed Collecting: Allow seedheads to dry on plants; remove and collect seeds
On Sep 17, 2009, Thalictrum from Noordwijk Netherlands wrote:
I love this plant. It grows in my yard in sandy soil in half shade. This plant blooms from the beginning of may until november. I would not want to do without this plant. I have started to take stem cuttings and hope for more of this plant.
Blooms the first year if grown in loose sandy soil and kept watered.
Easy to transplant.
Goldfinches pluck one or two rays from each flower in order to get their head in to inspect the maturity of the seed head. On successive visits, it appears they don't pluck any further, and use the space of the missing rays to perform their inspections.
On Jan 17, 2005, JodyC from Palmyra, IL (Zone 5b) wrote:
The nectar and pollen of the flowers attract their fair share of insects, including long-tongued bees, Halictine bees, bee flies, butterflies, Chauliognathus pennsylvanicus (Goldenrod Soldier Beetle), and other insects. Among the long-tongued bees, is the oligolege Holcopasites heliopsis (False Sunflower Bee). The caterpillars of Papaipoma rigida (Rigid Sunflower Borer Moth) sometimes bore through the stems.
This plant is desirable chiefly because of its long blooming season during the summer, and its ease of cultivation. It's possible to confuse the False Sunflower with one of the woodland sunflowers, but the former can be distinguished by its fertile and more numerous ray florets, rather broad and distinctively veined leaves, earlier blooming period, and the greater tendency of the flowers to be held erect on the plant, resembling yellow Zinnias.
Regional...
This plant has been said to grow in the following regions:
, (2 reports) Denver, Colorado Lewes, Delaware Cordele, Georgia Washington, Illinois Brunswick, Missouri Port Norris, New Jersey Brooklyn, New York Fairborn, Ohio Arlington, Texas Richmond, Virginia
3 vendors have this plant for sale.
