Sun or partial sun. Bush sunflower is an unassuming herbaceous plant that forms mounds 1-3 feet tall during the growing season and dies back to the ground with hard frost. It blooms well in spring, producing 1-2 inch yellow-on-yellow sunflowers at the ends of the multi-branching stems.
In springtime the show is particularly nice because growth is dense, and the clusters of flowers are denser than later in the year. Anytime a summer thunderstorm passes by a new flush of growth will be followed by a flush of blooms.
To control size and prevent a scraggly late-summer look, bush sunflower can be cut back to the ground halfway through summer; the plant will regrow from the ground up. Don’t worry about hurting it; it is accustomed to being eaten to the ground on rangelands.Â
An compact perennial sunflower well-suited to rangelands, limestone and prairies.
