
Large tusind stjerne / Telekia speciosa is an excellent butterfly plant when it blooms in July-August the flowers can be full of butterflies.
Telekia is a rhizomatous, sunflower-like perennial that is native primarily to mountainous areas in southern Europe, the Ukraine, the Balkans, the Caucusus and Turkey. Features sprays of single, daisy-like flower heads (to 3.5” across) with yellow rays and large, flattened, orange-yellow center disks. Blooms appear in late summer to early fall on branching-at-the-top stems rising to 4-6’ tall. Coarse, aromatic, triangular, doubly-serrate, long-petioled, basal leaves (to 12" long) with cordate bases. Leaves are glabrous above and hairy below. Smaller ovate stem leaves are sessile. Synonymous with Buphthalmum speciosum.