Zizia aptera Golden Alexander - Meadow Zizia
ZIZ-ee-uh  or  zi-ZEE-uh  AP-ter-uh

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(Email for availability) Zizia aptera Golden Alexander potted plants  $5.00 each plus Boxing/Shipping
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Zizia = Named for JB Ziz, 19th century German botanist
ziziz = Wingless

Butterfly Host Plant for the Ozark Swallowtail Butterfly

Zizia aptera like most wildflowers has several common names including Golden Alexander, Heartleaf Alexander, Meadow Zizia and Heart-leaved Meadow Parsnip.  Native Zizia aptera plants have several 1-1/2 inch clusters of small bright yellow flowers growing in an open mounded form with lush, heart shaped foliage that is attractive all summer.  Zizia aptera is a butterfly host plant for the Missouri Woodland Swallowtail butterfly.  Golden Alexander grows best in humus-rich, average to moist soil in partial shade to full sun and is ideal to plant near a garden path or in the front of a perennial border where it can be enjoyed all season.

Zizia aptera Golden alexander seed germination is improved after a pretreatment of 6 to 12  weeks of cold moist stratification or when planted outside in the fall or early winter.

Native Golden Alexander wildflowers occur naturally in seasonally wet prairies and open woods from New York to Manitoba, and British Colombia, south to Georgia Tennessee, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Texas.   Apiaceae (Parsley Family)

The map below shows areas where native Zizia aptera Golden Alexander flowers grow wild, it is hardy over a much wider area if planted.  Plant in USDA plant hardiness zones 3 to 9.

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Willow Springs,  MO.  65793
USA
Phone 417-469-2611 

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Zizia aptera Golden Alexander Plant distribution map complements of USDA, NRCS. 2001. The PLANTS Database, Version 3.1
  (http://plants.usda.gov). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA.