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Apiaceae
Golden Alexanders
Zizia aurea
Generous nourishment.
- Family
- Apiaceae
- Genus
- Zizia
- Native to
- Eastern and central North America
- Bloom season
- Late Spring, Early Summer
- Type
- perennial herb
- Height
- 1-3 ft
- Sunlight
- full sun to part shade
- Soil
- moist, well-drained
- Water
- moderate
- Hardiness
- 3-8
- Lifespan
- perennial
Did you know
- The flat-topped yellow umbels look like a smaller, native cousin of dill or fennel flowers.
- It's a critical host plant for the black swallowtail butterfly — caterpillars eat the foliage.
- It blooms before most other native wildflowers, providing crucial early nectar for emerging pollinators.
- Named after Johann Baptist Ziz, a 19th-century German botanist.
- Despite being in the carrot family, it's not closely related to the giant invasive 'Alexanders' (Smyrnium) of Europe.
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