Sneezeweed
Helenium amarumnative · Hill Country
Sneezeweed is an annual wildflower native to the Texas Hill Country that grows 1–3 ft tall and 1 ft wide. It wants full sun or part shade and low water, and handles caliche and clay soil. Blooms yellow in Jan–Dec. Good for bees, butterflies and nectar insects.
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The facts
5 sources- Type
- Annual wildflower
- Sun
- Full sun to part shade (3–6 hrs of direct sun)
- Water
- Low
- Height
- 1–3 ft
- Spread
- 1 ft
- Bloom
- Jan–Dec · yellow
- Foliage
- Deciduous or dies back in winter
- Soil
- Takes caliche and clay · recorded on dry, gravelly, limestone, loam, sand, well drained
- Wildlife
- Supports bees, butterflies and nectar insects
Where it grows
Recorded in these EPA Level IV ecoregions in the Austin and Hill Country launch area:
Balcones CanyonlandsLlano UpliftEdwards Plateau WoodlandNorthern Blackland PrairieSouthern Post Oak SavannaFloodplains and Low TerracesLimestone Cut PlainSan Antonio Prairie
2,193 occurrence records in Central Texas (GBIF).
Can you buy it?
Also grows here — hard to find. Native and recorded growing in Central Texas, but not on the grower stock lists we read. Sourcing varies: some are stocked widely, others you will have to hunt for.