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Heliopsis helianthoides | False Sunflower | Ox-eye Daisy | Mock Sunflower
The family is Asteraceae (Pronounced ass-ter-AY-see-eye ) which is daisies and sunflowers.
(Pronounced He-lee-OP-sis) (a Greek word for "helios" meaning "sun" and "opsis" meaning "like", or "sun-eye")
(Pronounced hel-ih-anth-OH-deez)(meaning like a sunflower)
This is the only species of Heliopsis in natural to Missouri making it a Missouri native plant. One day when I was at the local conservation center, a man was pulling flowers to toss as he was maintaining the beds. I asked him if I could have some of the plants and he said I could take as many as I wanted. This is one of the plants. I did not realize I still had this plant until I was cutting back the other plant I got at the same time and realized the two had grown into each other. They were almost one plant! I tried separating them this year (2023) and I am successful and it survives.
Mine grows to 5 feet tall, but everything in the bed where it is planted grows taller than other parts of my garden.
I count 13 petals on this flower. I have learned that this is the same flower as the one I took out of my son's yard, but that it is a semi-double variety. They hardly look the same!
The above and below were taken in 2022.
The below photos were taken while filming the above video in 2023.
The bug that was on the plant while I was filming is a Milkweed Bug (Lygaeus equestris) so I searched the internet to learn about it and it made me wonder if there were milkweeds nearby on the other side of the fence.
The below two photos were taken in 2020 and I think this is the year that it was planted.
