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
Action plan
- Can I plant this now?
- Use your local last-frost, first-frost, and soil-temperature checks before treating this crop as plantable today.
- Start indoors or direct sow?
- Direct sow into the final bed when the soil temperature, seed depth, and moisture are ready.
- How much space?
- 18 inches in-row spacing, 24 inches between rows, and 0.125 inch seed depth.
- Best companions?
- Use this as part of a diverse flowering or herb planting, and treat companion claims as site-specific rather than guaranteed pest control.
- Common failure modes?
- Seedlings can be confused with weeds; mark sowing areas. Moderate moisture during establishment. Average, well-drained soil.
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
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