Helenium autumnale (Sneezeweed) Grass Fruit provides a needed food

Fruit provides a needed food source for overwintering songbirds

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Because this species tends to sucker so use them in mass plants or prune as necessary to keep in place

Helenium autumnale (Sneezeweed) Grass Fruit provides a needed foodHelenium autumnale (Sneezeweed) is a highlight of the autumn garden with its abundant bright yellow daisy like flowers with pretty notched petals. With flowers beginning in late August and sometimes lasting until early October it aims to please. Reaching about four feet, it thrives in wetter full sun and mostly sunny locations. Pollinators of all kinds flock to this plant. Interestingly enough, its leaves and flowers were once powdered and used as a