Common Sneezeweed

Helenium autumnale L.

Asteraceae (Aster Family)

▲▼ mature flowering plants

▲▼ flowers

▲ winged stems

Common Sneezeweed: (pp. 140-141, Weeds of the Great Plains—not in Weeds of the Northeast)

·         is a simple perennial native weed with bright yellow flowers with rounded centers (disk flowers) and notched ray flowers

·         has narrow, lanceolate leaves

·         has leafy “wings” on stems

·         grows 1-5' tall

·         poisonous to livestock; common in wet soils, riparian areas, wetland margins