Heliopsis 'Burning Hearts'
Heliopsis helianthoides scabra

Name: Heliopsis 'Burning Hearts'
SKU: S1413
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SKU # S1413

Product Type: Seed Packet

Approximate Seeds Per Packet: 27

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This new oxeye daisy has smoldering dark foliage and strong purple stems that offer an appealing contrast to the golden daisy flowers with hearts of fire. A slow starter, it's true, but by year two they are firmly established and filled with flame-kissed blooms all summer to fall. A bushy strong upright grower in lean soils in sun.

Lifecycle: Perennial

Zone: 3,4,5,6,7,8,9

Size: 3-4' h x 1.5' w

Sun: Full sun

Soil: Regular, well-drained

Season: Summer to fall

Seed to Bloom:

Color: Saturated yellow with orange centers

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Growing Guide

Sowing Instructions:

Depth: 1/8"
Sprout Time: 14-28 days
Starting Indoors: Sow indoors in late winter and keep at 65-70°F.
Starting Outdoors: Direct sow at last frost.

When to Set Outside

After last frost.

Placement & Cultivation

A new cultivar of a native plant, 'Burning Hearts' is a showy stalwart of summer borders, being easy to grow and requiring little care. Also known as False Sunflower or Ox Eye Sunflower, Heliopsis will attract birds, bees, and butterflies, and is also deer resistant. Add to mid or back border or to meadow plantings.
Final Spacing: 1.5'
Water Use: Low Water Use
Watering Details: Water regularly while establishing, then only during dry spells.
Soil pH: Not particular about pH.
Fertilizer: Mix in an inch or two of compost prior to planting and yearly thereafter each spring, or sprinkle an organic granular fertilizer around the plants.
Diseases & Pests: Aphids may appear—prevent by regularly spraying plants down with a hose. If these pests do show up, hose down daily until they are no longer an issue.

Plant Description

Plant: Clumps of hairy, somewhat thick green leaves; lower leaves have toothed margins while upper leaves typically do not.
Seeds: Flowers will produce achenes (also similar to sunflowers, as they are in the same family). May self sow.
When to Cut: Halfway to nearly opened.

Fun Fact

The genus name Heliopsis comes from the Greek words helios, which means "the sun," and opsis, which means "resembling," referring to the rayed yellow flower heads. The specific epithet helianthoides stands for the resemblance to the sunflower genus Helianthus, hence the common name False Sunflower. Var. scabra differs from species plants in that its leaves and stems are hairy and rough-textured (scabrous).

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Heliopsis helianthoides scabra

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Heliopsis 'Burning Hearts'
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