| Common Name: |
Tiny Dancer Sneezeweed |
| Scientific Name: |
Helenium flexuosum 'Tiny Dancer' |
| Category: |
Herb/Forb |
| Habit: |
Herbaceous perennial |
| Bloom Color: |
Yellow rays with brownish-purple center disk |
| Bloom Size: |
1-2 in diameter |
| Bloom Season: |
Late summer or early fall |
| Foliage Description: |
Alternate, lance-shaped, dark green basal leaves to 8 in. long, with shorter sessile stem leaves |
| Height of Plant: |
1-3 ft. |
| Spread of Plant: |
1-2 ft. |
| Hardiness: |
USDA Zones 5 - 9 |
| Light Requirements: |
Full sun |
| Water Usage: |
Medium to wet |
| Soil Type: |
Occurs in moist soils along streams, sink hole ponds, sloughs, ditches, swamps, swampy meadows, upland prairie depressions, pastures and fields |
| Native Range: |
Eastern and Midwestern United States |
| Propagation: |
Sow in situ |
| Maintenance: |
Medium |
| Other Information: |
Powdered disk flowers and leaves of the sneezeweeds have in the past been dried and used as snuff, thus giving rise to the common name |
| Photographer: |
Jon Wooten |
| Location: |
Native Plant Garden |