- Bloom Time: April – May
- Bloom Color: Yellow
- Height: 24 inches
- Sun: Full to partial
- Soil: Medium
Zizia aptera
Caterpillar food for:
black swallowtail (Papillio polyxenes)
Attracts these pollinators:
soldier beetles (Rhagonycha spp.), mining bees (Andrena spp.), mason bees (Osmia spp.), bumble bees (Bombus spp.), sweat bees (Lasioglossum spp.), yellow-faced bees (Hylaeus spp.), small carpenter bees (Ceratina spp.), potter wasps (Eumenes spp.), paper wasps (Polistes spp.), syrphid flies (Toxomerus spp.), tachinid flies (Siphona spp.), mason wasps (Euodynerus spp.)
More information: Minnesota Wildflowers