Doellingeria umbellata
Growing Information
• Plant Type: Perennial
• Sunlight: Full to partial sun
• Soils: Average to moist soils
• Bloom Time: July, August
• Size: 2-5 feet tall
Flowers before most asters and spreads by rhizomes as well as by seed. It has an upright bushy habit. The individual flowers are about ½-¾” wide, white with vibrant yellow centers. It is a nectar and pollen source for short-and long-tongued bees, wasps, and flies, beetles, and butterflies.
Garden Companions
Companion with Canadian burnet (Sanguisorba canadensis), common bayberry (Morella pensylvanica), swamp milkweed (Asclepias incarnata), coastal plain Joe-Pye weed (Eutrochium dubium), and sheep laurel (Kalmia angustifolia).
Nature Benefits
- Attracts a variety of pollinating insects
- Wildlife enjoy the foliage as food, so keep it caged as it gets established
Natural Habitat
Moist thickets, woodland edges, wetland margins.