'Helenium' Siesta

ℹ  Helenium 'Siesta' from the mariachi series of heleniums, is an exceptional North American native hybrid perennial. Sporting masses of lightly ruffled and extremely showy, dark, crimson red, echinacea like blooms with dark chocolate cones, Siesta creates a stark contrast which always turns heads in the landscape! A larval host plant for the Dainty Sulphur Butterfly and an important nectar source for Monarchs and other butterflies, this Monarch Way Station plant also provides special value to native bees. A win, win plant, this high value specimen will provide immense beauty while supporting native beneficial pollinators in your area. This virtually maintenance free plant is also heat, poor soil, deer, rabbit and cold tolerant. You really can't go wrong with planting Helenium Siesta in your garden!!