Bitterweed
10 images Created 30 May 2015
Bitterweed, Helenium amarum var. badium
Dense mounds of this native annual drooping yellow flower (aka Basin Sneezeweed) can cover wide areas. The entire plant is a bitter aromatic - a pox upon a field. Cattle refuse to eat it and honey produced from it can be bitter and unusable. Overgrazed pastures are sometimes covered with it.
Dense mounds of this native annual drooping yellow flower (aka Basin Sneezeweed) can cover wide areas. The entire plant is a bitter aromatic - a pox upon a field. Cattle refuse to eat it and honey produced from it can be bitter and unusable. Overgrazed pastures are sometimes covered with it.
