Smooth Oxeye

Informal wildflower gardens.

Not salt tolerant of inundation by salty or brackish water.



Low/no tolerance of salty wind or direct salt spray

Seeds eaten by birds.

Pine-oak-hickory woods, longleaf pinelands, bluffs.

• Showy flowers
• Attracts butterflies and bees but the list of insects is diverse and includes hoverflies and soldier beetles.  The ground nesting bee, Holcopasites heliopis, is a specialist pollinator of Heliopsis helianthoides.