Species is US Native, not introduced alien Seed Packet designed for 15 Square Feet of Planting A 3’ to 6’ tall native annual with abundant showy yellow flowers. A late summer and fall flowering plant that prefers moist soils and full sun or partial shade. Showy Tickseed is a 3’ to 6’ tall, prolific self-seeding, native annual. It is a tall branching plant with large numbers of showy yellow flowers, growing equally well in full sun or part shade. Showy Tickseed needs a moist environment and is usually found growing in wet fields, swamp or marsh edges, roadside ditches or other low ground. Tickseed Sunflower is widely used in landscaping, native plant gardens, wildflower meadows, and along roadsides. The two-pronged barbed awns extending from the seed attach to clothing or fur to spread. On dryer sites the seed is readily consumed by quail and other birds. In swamp edges and flooded fields the seeds attract large numbers of ducks.