Solidago confinis - Yellow butterfly weed

Yellow butterfly weed (Solidago confinis) is a deciduous California perennial of seeps and moist clay soils from the coast to Death Valley, with two-foot plumes of yellow flowers suited to cut-flower use. It grows 0.7-1 m tall and 0.5-1 m wide.¹

Inputs

• Hardiness zone 4¹
• Hardiness zone 5¹
• Hardiness zone 6¹
• Hardiness zone 7¹
• Hardiness zone 8¹
• Hardiness zone 9¹
• Hardiness zone 10¹
• Moist soil¹

Type

• Herb¹
• Perennial¹
• Deciduous¹

Functions

• Fire resistance²
• Attracting beneficial insects¹

Dimension	At maturity
Height (m)	0.7-1
Diameter (m)	0.5-1

Footnotes

1. Solidago confinis, Yellow Butterfly Weed | Las Pilitas Nursery Native Plant Database ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸ ↩⁹ ↩¹⁰ ↩¹¹ ↩¹² ↩¹³

2. Leaf burn times of California native plants, Las Pilitas Nursery, 2005 propane-torch ignition trial, live-leaf ignition time >60 seconds ↩