Ox-Eye  (False Sunflower)

Heliopsis helianthoides

These bright yellow flowers, each about 2 to 2-1/2 inches across, begin blooming a month before true sunflowers (genus Helianthus, hence the species name of this plant, which means 'sunflower- like'.) Each flower tops a long  stem; stems are slightly hairy. Leaves in opposite pairs attach on short petioles to the main stems; they are ovate-pointed, usually no longer than about 4 inches, and have teeth or serrations on the edges.  The bracts behind the flower petals are distinctively stubby and thick-looking, very different from the long and pointy bracts of most sunflowers.

2-6 feet, sun - partial sun.

Summer (June-August).

14 June 2020.

Ox-Eye or False Sunflower, 29 June 2020.

The short, stubby or rounded bracts behind the petals.

1 August 2020.