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Special All Product Fresh Seeds Zizia aurea, also known as Golden Alexanders

This perennial native plant is the plant that originally helped the Black Swallowtail butterflies to sustain life in North America

Other plants have been introduced in the last 300 years and the Swallowtail uses them now as well but there was a time when the Black Swallowtail depended on this plant in order to stay alive

This plant likes to live in the sun or partial shade and gets about 3 feet tall at the most

Special All Product Fresh Seeds an early bloomer starting in Spring and lasting through early Summer

This plants flower can be used raw in salads, or cooked as a vegetable similar to broccoli

Zizia Aurea is the larval host plant for the Black Swallowtail butterfly and the Ozark Swallowtail, otherwise known as the Missouri Woodland Swallowtail butterfly; These two butterflies look almost identical

Zizia Aurea is also a nectar source for at least another dozen butterflies; The number is probably more like in the hundreds

Bees, wasps, flies, and beetles all love this plant

Many of the short tongued bees find this plant to be an ideal nectar source

USDA Hardiness Zones 4 to 9

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