In case your backyard is dry, sunny and scorching, attempt prairie coneflower! These colourful native wildflowers will delight birds and pollinators.
Prairie Coneflower Care

- Widespread identify: Prairie coneflower
- Botanical identify: Ratibida columnifera
- Gentle: Full solar
- Soil: Nicely-draining
- Watering: Drought-tolerant
- Top: 1 to three ft tall
- Zones: 4 to 9
- Attracts: Bees, butterflies, birds
You’re in all probability aware of purple coneflower (Echinacea purpurea), however you might not know prairie coneflower. These native crops are within the aster plant household. The colourful yellow and pink wildflowers are adaptable and straightforward to develop from seed. Plant them in full solar for one of the best flowering. They not often want supplemental water and dislike moist and heavy clay soils.
This plant can be generally often called Mexican hat due to the central disc that protrudes prominently up like a sombrero. Nevertheless, the widespread identify prairie coneflower is most popular to forestall the unfold of cultural stereotypes.
Develop coneflowers to draw butterflies and birds.
Prairie Coneflower Advantages

These long-blooming, drought-tolerant flowers are principally carefree. Additionally they supply loads of wildlife advantages. Pollinators love the nectar and birds like goldfinches gobble up the seeds. Deer normally steer clear. Pair them with different sun-loving prairie crops resembling black-eyed Susan and blanket flower.
Particular person crops are short-lived. However they do reseed prolifically, so that you’ll have new crops annually. Trim them again in fall if you wish to cut back their unfold.
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Extra Warmth-Tolerant Pollinator Crops

“Which crops thrive in dry situations and entice birds and butterflies?” asks Birds & Blooms reader Cara Washburn of McAllen, Texas.
Horticultural knowledgeable Melinda Myers says, “Look to native crops that tolerate your local weather and herald wildlife. Black-eyed Susan, bluebonnets, blanket flower, Indian paintbrush, golden tickseed, mealycup sage, prairie coneflower, prairie verbena, Texas lantana and yaupon holly are just some crops that survive in scorching, sunny situations.
For much more choices or to see if a selected plant will develop in your yard, contact your native college extension workplace. They’ll have first-hand data of your space.”
Subsequent, learn to entice butterflies with late-blooming asters.