it depends on your soil ... does it drain properly .. if you dont know.. perk it ... https://duckduckgo.com/?q=perk+garden+soil&t=ffcm&iax=videos&ia=videos if bad non draining clay.. plant high ... if good drainage.. plant the root flare at soil surface ... water it in heavily at planting.. and dont water it again.. UNTIL IT NEEDS IT ... insert finger to find out ... in fall ... it might not need water until the heat starts in late spring.. but check every now and then ... i NEVER fert trees/shrubs.. etc.. here is a good primer : https://duckduckgo.com/?q=perk+garden+soil&t=ffcm&iax=videos&ia=videos bloom book is great.. but be careful with Brit books ... they are 2/3 of the way to the north pole.. yet can be z 7 to 9 [ the north atlantic drift]... so you have to interpret that to your situation ... sun intensity that far north is also very low comparatively speaking ... its hard to believe.. with 16 years under your fingernails.. you claim to be a newb ... lol ... bottom line.. its a tree... not a child.. plant it;. water properly.. and ignore it.. its not a child that need to be fed.. clothed or educated ... dont love it to death ... its not a water loving annual or perennial ... ken

Hi friends. It has a bit more petals than heritage. Also the petals hold against wind and rain.

Using your genus tip I think it might be Hypericum punctatum (Spotted St. John's-wort). Also looked at H. mutilum and H. boreale but the leaves seemed too small.

Euthamia gymnospermoides is shown native in MI by USDA and several other web sources but none of them detail to county level. As you stated, Euthamia graminifolia is recorded in Ottawa county and almost every other county as per https://www.michiganflora.net/species.aspx?id=328. michiganflora.net doesn't have any records for Euthamia gymnospermoides. Euthamia graminifolia and E. caroliniana are the only 2 of the genus shown in Ottawa county at michiganflora.net. Of course this is not to say that it is impossible for Euthamia gymnospermoides to exist here, it just means there have been no official sighting recorded. I guess having a flower head would have made all of this easier. Thank you for you dedication to accuracy and for pursuing this matter further, it is greatly appreciated.