Upright prairie coneflower
Ratibida columnifera (Nutt.) Wooton & Standl.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- —
- tall
- 91 cm
- wide
- —
Asteraceae
Also called Mexican hat, Yellow coneflower, Long-headed coneflower
Formerly Lepachys columnaris, Lepachys columnifera, Lepachys pulcherrima, Obeliscaria columnaris, and 7 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- PerennialKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Canada to MexicoKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 91 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- Yellow, brownRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -34.4 °C (USDA zone 4a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: spread, water, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (8)
- French
- ratibida en colonne
- Spanish
- Sombrero mexicano, conito de campo
- Finnish
- meksikonkeltahattu
- Chinese (China)
- 草原松果菊
- Swedish
- mexikohatt
- Russian
- Рудбекия колонконосная
- Ukrainian
- Ратібіда стовпчаста
- Chinese
- 柱托草光菊, 草光菊, 草原松果菊
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, Public domain
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-26, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-26, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-26, CC0
- 3D model: Ratibida columnifera (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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