Native / Warm season
Black-Eyed Susan
Easy native color for meadow edges and sunny pollinator beds.
Grown for habitat and summer flowers.
Seed spacing and maturity
- Days to maturity
- 90
- Germination temperature
- 65-75F
- Seed depth
- 0.125 inches
- Spacing
- 18 inches
- Row spacing
- 24 inches
- Start method
- Direct sow
Frost-date timing
- Direct sow
- 14 days before last frost
- Fall planting
- 10 weeks before first frost
Growing profile
- Sun
- Full sun
- Water
- Moderate moisture during establishment.
- Soil
- Average, well-drained soil.
- Watch
- Seedlings can be confused with weeds; mark sowing areas.
- native
- pollinators
- perennial
- meadow
Browse context
- Native Catalog Category collection
- Aster Family Rotation and family context
- Warm Season Seeds Season collection
- Direct Sow Seeds Start-method collection
- Container-Friendly Seeds Practical trait collection
- Beginner-Friendly Seeds Practical trait collection
- High Pollinator Value Seeds Practical trait collection
- Fall-Planting Seeds Practical trait collection
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