Sneezeweed

Other names

Helen'S Flower

Growth habit

Herbaceous

Perennation

Long-lived polycarpic perennial

Location

Young Flower Garden

Source of plant

Lazy S's Farm Nursery

Description

Helenium Potter's Wheel flowers from early August. Plants are 85cm tall; flowers 55mm across with 18mm dark brown cones, deep crimson brown petals marked with 1mm gold band at petal edge, reverse similar. Rather sparsely petalled, flat flower. Leaf 110 x 33mm dark green lanceolate, serrulate. Selected and named by Inez Arnold in the Netherlands.

USDA Hardiness Zone

5