USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 3a-8b  Find Your Zone

Plant Type:  Herbaceous Perennial Wildflower

Flower Color:  Green cones surrounded by Deep Red to Reddish-Orange peatls edged in Yellow

Flower Size: 1.5"

Flowering Period:  Mid-Summer through Early to Mid-Fall

Flower Type:  Coneflower

Fragrant Flowers:  -

Foliage Color:  Green

Fragrant Foliage:  -

Berries:  -

Berry Color:  -

Attracts:  Butterflies, Visual Attention

Resistances:  Cold Temperatures (-40F / Zones 4-8), Deer, Disease, Drought (high when established), Heat, Humidity, Insect, Rabbit

Ratibida columnifera 'Red Midget,' commonly known as Mexican Hat Coneflower, is a North American native flowering perennial like no other. From midsummer through early fall, it features unique and abundant coneflowers with a prominent, tall, mint-green cone surrounded by a skirt of drooping petals in shades of dark red and/or orange-red edged in yellow. The butterflies and other beneficial pollinators will flock to flowers, which are also excellent for cutting and displaying in floral arrangements.  If you're growing it in a natural area such as a meadow, prairie, or wildflower garden, leave some spent flowers on the plant in the late season to provide seeds for birds and self-sowing. Red Midget Mexican Hate is easy to grow and highly drought-tolerant when established, and the deer and rabbits turn their noses up at it. 

The Red Midget Mexican Hat Coneflower is easy to grow in moist,well-drained soil of average fertility and full sun to mostly sun. We suggest at least 6 hours of direct sun daily for best flowering and overall performance. It has high drought tolerance when established. Deadhead spent flowers to encourage additional bloom and/or prevent unwanted self-seeding. Self-sowing is a desirable thing when growing it in meadows and wildflower gardens.