Helen’s Flower
Helenium amarum - Bitterweed, Bitter Sneezeweed, Yellowdicks,
Spanish Daisy, American Sneezeweed.
Common weed found in meadows, along roadsides, and other disturbed
areas. Some authorities consider it to
be weedy or invasive. If cows eat them
their milk will have a bitter taste.
This plant is a native of the United States. They are in the Asteraceae (Aster) family.
Bitterweed's yellow blossom is a typical aster with a
cluster of disk flowers and separate ray flowers. H. amarum typically
has five to ten ray flowers hanging down from the dome-shaped disk.
This is var. amarum, which is the more widespread of the two Helenium
amarum varieties. The other variety, var. badium has a brown
central disk, and is found only in Oklahoma, Texas, and South Carolina.
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