| Description | A plant common to moist areas. It produces hundreds of yellow daisy-like flowers in the late summer through early autumn. |
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| Plant Type | All Plants, Wild Flowers |
| Hardiness Zone | winter hardy to atleast zone #5 |
| Sunlight | full sun |
| Moisture | likes moist areas |
| Soil & Site | Frequent in moist areas such as by streams, drainage ditches, low swampy areas, wet meadows and moist prairies. The only place that I have seen this plant growing is in wet to moist sites. |
| Flowers | The yellow composite bent back flower are 1-1.5", each on an individual stalk and produced in large numbers on each plant. The central yellow disk mounds like a ball. Ten or more yellow petals make up the flower, petals are wedge shaped with lobed tips. The bloom late summer through early autumn. I have seen it blooming from the end of August through September |
| Leaves | simple, alternate, form a wing at the point of attachment, widest near the middle and taper to both ends. |
| Stems | branching and winged |
| Dimensions | 3-5 feet tall |
| Propagation | seeds, division |
| Misc Facts | The plants are poisonous to live stock, but they seldom eat it. The flower heads (I have also seen the dried leaves listed) were dried and used as snuff. |
| Notes & Reference | #41-Wildflowers of Wisconsin (Stan Teikiela) ,#46-Wetland Plants and Plant Communities of Minnesota and Wisconsin (Eggers and Reed) ,#56-Tall Grass Prairie Wildflowers (Doug Ladd) |
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