Clasping Coneflower

Botanical Name: Rudbeckia amplexicaulis
Sun Requirements: Part Sun, Full Sun

Summer flowering plant featuring showy 1" to 2" wide flowers with drooping yellow rays splotched with orange-purple at their bases and a sometimes elongated dark cone of disc flowers. Easily established from seed, is drought tolerant, and will self-seed in the garden or wildflower meadows. It provides bugging sites for young ground nesting birds.