Packera aurea

Sizes available: Landscape plug

Basics: zones 3-8, 12-24" x 12", sun to part shade, more shade tolerant than other Packera species, Yellow umbel in mid to late spring, also very adaptable as to soil and moisture. Perhaps it's ideal spot is a mesic to moist to even wet site in fertile acid soils, but on my property it is doing great on a well-drained, slightly sloping woodland edge (see image)

Synonym: Senecio aureus

Common names: Golden Groundsel, Golden Ragwort, Life Root, Uncum Root, False Valerian, Cough Weed, Cocash Weed, Staggerwort, St. James Weed, Female Regulator, Butterweed

Family: Asteracae

Origin/Distribution: eastern North America from Quebec to Georgia and west to Minnesota and Louisiana, native to Maine

Habitat: meadows, boggy swales, low moist deciduous woods, riparian areas pond or stream edge, ditch. However, see above comments in the above "Basics" section.

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Image credit: Honey Petal Plants