Zizia aptera (Heart-leaved Meadow Parsnip) Nitrogen-Fixing Sweet Joe-Pye Weed is a

Sweet Joe-Pye Weed is a large woodland plant reaching around four to seven feet high with beautiful cotton candy pink-purple flowers

Its compact growth habit and beautiful and rarer intensive orange colored flower are what make it the most popular plant plus the ability to host the monarch caterpillar

Heath Aster can be found in prairies and savannas in mesic to dry soils

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most would confuse it with an herbaceous flower

Zizia aptera (Heart-leaved Meadow Parsnip) Nitrogen-Fixing Sweet Joe-Pye Weed is aZizia aptera (Heart leaved Meadow Parsnip) is a medium height prairie plant with beautiful yellow flowers. It is an attractive plant with a longer bloom time than most and can do well in landscaped settings. The flowers add early interest in the garden and give needed nectar to those earlier pollinators. Black Swallowtail uses this plant as a host plant. Very similar to Zizia aurea (Golden Alexanders) in most ways except Zizia aptera (Heart leaved