USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 3a-9b  Find Your Zone

Plant Type:  Herbaceous Perennial 

Flower Color:  Yellow with Green center cones

Flower Size: 3-3.5" diameter

Flowering Period:  Throughout Summer into Fall

Flower Type:  Daisy, Coneflower

Fragrant Flowers:  -

Foliage Color:  Green

Fragrant Foliage:  -

Berries:  -

Berry Color:  -

Attracts:  Butterflies, Birds, Beneficial Pollinators, Visual Attention

Resistances:  Cold Temperatures (-40F), Deer, Disease, Drought (when established), Heat, Humidity, Insect, Rabbit

Rudbeckia laciniata, commonly known as the Green Headed or Cutleaf Coneflower, is a hardy, easy-to-grow North American native perennial wildflower that thrives in moist soil. In the wild, you might find it growing in sunny or partially shaded locations in meadows, woodland borders, or along streams and other bodies of water. A tall grower that can reach 10 feet tall in the wild but usually 4 to 6 feet in home gardens, it is clothed in attractive, deeply lobed green leaves, hence "cutleaf" in the common name. Tall stems bearing abundant 3-3.5 inch wide coneflowers with drooping yellow petals surrounding a green center cone put on quite the flower show during summer. Removing spent blooms will encourage a rebloom in the fall. The butterflies and beneficial pollinators will appreciate the flowers, and the birds, especially American Goldfinches, will feast on the seeds from the spent flowers. This is one of those perennial flowers that will always have you looking forward to its glorious, long-lasting summer bloom, and we've seen no serious problems with insects or disease.

Growing 4 to 6 feet tall and 2 to 3 feet wide, the Green Headed Cutleaf Coneflower is ideal for use at the back of the sunny perennial border or to add height to prairie, meadow, and wildflower gardens. Because it thrives in moist soil, it is perfect for planting along streams, creeks, lakes, and other bodies of water. It is a fine addition to butterfly gardens, beneficial pollinator gardens, native gardens, meadow gardens, wildflower gardens, and yellow theme gardens.

The Green Headed Cutleaf Coneflower is easy to grow in consistently moist but well-drained soil in full to part shade. For the best flowering, we suggest at least 4 hours of direct sunlight daily. We've seen no serious problems with insects or disease. The plant can be cut back to the ground after going dormant in winter.