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Texas coneflower

Rudbeckia texana

Texas coneflower
Photo: Wikilouque, CC BY-SA 4.0

Texas coneflower (Rudbeckia texana) is a robust perennial daisy native to wet prairies of eastern Texas and western Louisiana, with yellow ray petals around a dark brown cone. It thrives in moist, sunny sites and tolerates the heat and humidity of the Gulf coast.

Family
Asteraceae (Daisy family)
Grows as
Perennial
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Keep soil consistently moist during the growing season, especially in its first year, and tolerate wet soil.
Soil
Moist, fertile loam or clay; tolerates heavy and wet soil.
Temperature
18–32 °C; hardy to about -15 °C in USDA zones 7–10.
How easy
Easy
Native range
Louisiana to Texas

About

Rudbeckia texana, commonly known at Texas coneflower or shiny coneflower, is a perennial plant in the family Asteraceae native to the Western Gulf coastal grasslands of Texas and Louisiana.

Where it grows

Rudbeckia texana can be found in western Louisiana and eastern Texas, primarily in remnant wet prairies and along railroads and highways.

Other Rudbeckia plants

Showy coneflower · Dracopis · Eared coneflower · California coneflower · Orange coneflower · Grassleaf coneflower · Rough coneflower · Blackeyed Susan · Cutleaf coneflower · Great coneflower · Missouri orange coneflower · Western coneflower

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Rudbeckia texana 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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