Our 2025 EFN seed catalogue is now live! Featuring over 130 new varieties and over 640 total varieties, sourced from over 50 different growers from across the country. Huge thanks to all of our growers, volunteers, and to our stellar seed-house team in Minnesota! Each of you make this work possible.

Ox Eye Sunflower

Ox Eye Sunflower

$3.75 Sale

Heliopsis helianthoides

Origin: Eastern and Central North America

Improvement status: Wild

Seeds per packet: ~1,300

Germination tested 11/2024: 75%

Life cycle: Perennial

One of our favorite native sunflower species. Cheerful yellow blooms are prolific beginning in June and going through August. Perennial, but flowers the first year. Quite competitive, especially against annual weeds.

This seed was foraged by longtime EFN collaborator Dylan Bruce, of Circadian Organics Ferryville, WI.

GROWING TIPS: Cold and moist stratify for 30 days. Then it needs light, so it should be sown on the service directly where you intend to grow it, or on the the surface of a tray with potting soil, for eventual transplanting.