tithonia/mexican sunflower
 

wow is all I can say. Grew this many years ago and it was impressive. Didn't have enough sun, etc. An absolute butterfly magnet, about 6-7 foot. Will this reseed or if I save seeds, will they come true? I know there is a yellow version but this is the red-orange. Today four different kinds of butterflies were feeding, now I am waiting for the humming birds to find the flowers. Piegirl

I let a row of several of these in a parking strip go to seed
one year. None grew there the next year. I saved seeds, but
I never ended up planting them again (I did not have
another spot with both enough space for a plant that size
and enough sun for that plant), so I don't know if they were
fertile.

Note that we don't have sharply defined seasons here, which
affects a lot of plants that a need a definite
winter-spring-summer transition to sprout on their own and
survive. Birds or squirrels may have eaten the seeds in the fall,
too.