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Orange coneflower

Rudbeckia fulgida

Also called Perennial Coneflower

Orange coneflower
Photo: Jerzy Opioła (Poland), CC BY-SA 3.0

Orange coneflower is a North American perennial daisy with bright yellow flower heads on stems up to about 120 cm tall. It is a tough, low-fuss garden plant that thrives in full sun and well-drained soil.

Family
Asteraceae (Daisy family)
Grows as
Perennial
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Water regularly while establishing, then only during long dry spells.
Soil
Average, well-drained garden soil; tolerates clay and poor soil.
Temperature
Hardy in cold winters; protect young plants from extreme cold.
How easy
Easy
Native range
Illinois to E. U.S.A.
Climate
temperate

About

Rudbeckia fulgida, the orange coneflower or perennial coneflower, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae, native to eastern North America.

How to grow it

There are seven varieties;

Rudbeckia fulgida var. deamii (S. F. Blake) Perdue - Deam's coneflower

Other Rudbeckia plants

Dracopis · Blackeyed Susan · Cutleaf coneflower · Great coneflower · Browneyed Susan · Coneflower

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Rudbeckia fulgida by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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