Wildflower Daisy – Chocolate Daisy (Heirloom) – Berlandiera lyrata Perennial – These cheerful native wildflowers have a tantalizing chocolate scent that wafts through the garden as they bloom in the sun. Chocolate daisies provide a continuous show of deliciously fragrant little butter yellow blossoms, each the size of a quarter. Who knew they love chocolate as much as we do! Soil & Water: Chocolate daisies, native to the mesas and plains of the Southwest, thrive in average soil, but require good drainage to thrive; if soil is heavy clay, add organic material to improve drainage before sowing.
Variety Details
Botanical name:Berlandiera lyrata
Plant type: Perennial
Growth habit: Low Growing
Crop category: Flower seed
Flower character: Perennial – These cheerful native wildflowers have a tantalizing chocolate scent that wafts through the garden as they bloom in the sun.
Recorded feature: Fragrant
Product format: Seed packet
Sowing & Growing
Soil Temperature: above 50°F
Planting Depth: Cover lightly
Germination: 10-14 Days
Height At Maturity: 12-15″
Sun/Shade: Full Sun
Spacing After Thinning: 6″
Prepare a weed-reduced seedbed for ‘Heirloom Chocolate Daisy’ Fragrant Wildflower and use the recorded planting season, depth, and light requirements. Press shallow-sown seed into good soil contact and keep the seed zone from drying during establishment. Thin or transplant only when the growth habit and spacing call for it. Leave enough room for mature width and air movement. Bloom timing and final height can shift with sowing date, climate, soil, moisture, and competition, so use listed figures as planning ranges.
Place ‘Heirloom Chocolate Daisy’ Fragrant Wildflower where its recorded height and growth habit fit the surrounding planting. Shorter companions can be positioned toward bed edges, while taller stems need room where they will not shade small seedlings too early. If cutting flowers, harvest with clean tools at the stage appropriate to the bloom form. If leaving flowers in place, observe how bloom sequence changes through the season and record which sowing date performed best at the site.
Use a dated label for ‘Heirloom Chocolate Daisy’ Fragrant Wildflower and compare actual emergence, growth, and harvest or bloom timing with the ranges in the current record. Local soil, temperature, light, moisture, and planting date can shift results. Keep observations with the remaining packet so the next sowing can be adjusted without replacing product-specific measurements with a universal calendar.
