How to Grow and Care for Woolly sunflowers

Golden Yarrow (Eriophyllum confertiflorum) is a perennial that blooms from late spring to early summer with bright golden clusters of flowers that attract butterflies and bees. It is easy to grow with little maintenance. Prefers full sun and dry to medium, well-drained soil. Cut back after flowering for new growth and profuse flowering in spring.

Common Woolly Sunflower is an easily identified shrub and, as its name suggests, as miniature sunflowers. It gives added ornamental value because of its buttery yellow flowers that grow in abundance in brightly upward directions. It is also easier for garden keepers to grow since it tolerates dry, stony, and sunny areas.

Woolly daisy (Eriophyllum wallacei) comes from southwestern North America. Its leaves and stems are covered in wool-like hairs that give the species its name. Woolly daisy plants most often grow in desert conditions and bloom only one flower each, but in rainy conditions, they can quickly sprout more shoots and more flowers.

The leaves are widely lance-shaped or oblong and sometimes have lobes, with woolly hairs on both sides. The inflorescence produces one flower head containing many yellow disc florets and 6 to 10 yellow, white, or bicolored ray florets which are each 2 millimeters to one centimeter (2 to 10 mm) long. The fruit is a rough-haired achene which may have a very small pappus.

Eriophyllum lanosum is a small annual plant, rarely reaching a height of more than 10 cm. The plant is often unnoticed because it blends in with gravel and sand. It has a white-woolly stem and moderately woolly leaves. The plant produces one flower head per flowering stalk. Each head has 8–10 ray florets, white with red veins. These surround 10–20 tiny yellow disc florets.